I wonder if that still holds true? The volume of videos increases exponentially especially with AI slop, I wonder if at some point they will have to limit the storage per user, with a paid model if you surpass that limit. Many people who upload many videos I guess some form of income off YouTube so it wouldn’t that be that big of a deal.

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weird-eye-issue 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

What they said only holds true because the growth continues so that the old volume of videos doesn't matter as much since there's so many more new ones each year compared to the previous year. So the question is more about whether or not it will hold true in the long term, not today

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raincole 3 hours ago | parent [-]

The framing here is really weird. The volume of videos increasing isn't 'growth.' Videos are inventory for Youtube. They're only good when people (without adblocks!) actually watch them.

	▲	weird-eye-issue an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Growth in this context is that there are a larger volume of videos each year. So each year a single video is exponentially a smaller and smaller percentage of the total.
	▲	amelius 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		^ This.

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pogue 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I assume it's an economics issue. As long as they continue making money off the uploads to a higher extent than it costs for storage, it works out for them.

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throw_await 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Do they make a profit nowadays

	▲	rezonant 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Likely yes, with a margin of perhaps 38% https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34268536

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ranger_danger 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I wonder if anyone has ever compiled a list of channels with abnormally large numbers of videos? For example this guy has over 14,000:

https://www.youtube.com/@lylehsaxon

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HeliumHydride 5 hours ago | parent [-]

There is a channel with 2 million videos: https://www.youtube.com/@RoelVandePaar/videos One with 4 million videos: https://www.youtube.com/@NameLook

	▲	buenzlikoder 5 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		NameLook puts a whole new meaning to "low effort videos"
	▲	wellf 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		First one has transcribed stack overflow to YT by the look of it