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Pansino: YouTube's Promote Feature Costs Roughly $10,000 Per Million Views
“And now I think the math that I did, if you, the cheapest I think you can do, cause you can pick region and you can pick but if you want, it's about a thousand bucks for a 100,000 views. So if you want your video to reach a million views, it's about 10,000 dol…”
Hastings: Netflix accounts for under 10% of U.S. TV viewing
“Well, if you look today at TV viewing in the United States, as an example Disney's ahead of us. YouTube is, this is combining linear and on demand. YouTube's ahead of us. They're the largest. Disney's ahead of us. Even Paramount's ahead of us, because they all…”
Hastings: YouTube doubled its TV viewing share over four years
“And I would say the big challenger is YouTube because they have doubled in the last four years. Their share of television viewing somewhat in the U S but dramatically around the world”
Zennström: Skype Was the Largest Post-Dot-Com Internet Acquisition Globally
“The largest Internet M&A before us was PayPal to eBay, right? One point by a billion. And So this was like two X. And then you had. This is amazing. YouTube. YouTube was also 1.6 billion or something like that. Yeah. Also the same year with Google. So this was…”
YouTube gave Crash Course a $450,000 advance without taking IP ownership
“Yeah, I think they gave us 450,000 dollars. Yep, that is right... So it's sort of an advance against advertising royalty. So they recouped via advertising revenue, but we got to own the IP.”
Lopez: YouTube logs 700 million hours of video podcast viewing monthly
“YouTube most famously has Being the number one platform for video consumption of podcasts, and they had a data point of seven hundred million viewing hours per month going to video podcasts.”
Jack Conte: YouTuber Bo Miles Is Selling Out 1,400-Seat Australian Theaters
“Bo Miles, who's an amazing filmmaker on YouTube is going all over Australia where he lives and renting theaters and selling out 1400 person theaters and screening his YouTube videos and doing Q&As with his fans.”
Dhar Mann Studios ranked as the #2 global YouTube creator in 2021
“So we went from hardly getting any views our first couple of years to 20, 21 finishing as the number two creator on the platform globally. And number one, in scripted.”
Oh Lin: KiwiCo's founding team included YouTube's first engineer and PayPal co-founder
“Ended up bringing on board a co-founder who was a bit more technical, had been in product management. And then I also brought on a technical co-founder, somebody who had been actually a founder of PayPal, was the first engineer at YouTube. And so at first ther…”
Green: YouTube refused to sponsor the inaugural VidCon in 2010
“Yeah, I mean, we were on the phone with you two telling them what sponsorship number we thought made sense, and. And they were telling us, no, we will not sponsor this janky convention.”
Hank Green: Vlogbrothers reached 70,000 to 80,000 subscribers by late 2008
“And then by late 2008, we were at 70 or 80,000. Which was, you know, one of the bigger channels on YouTube.”
Andrew Rea: Babish Videos Have Never Said 'Like and Subscribe'
“You might also notice that I've never ever said like and subscribe, which is a very common YouTuber trope to say, to finish, begin and finish a video with, hey guys, like and subscribe. And I've never said that.”
Daily vlogging boosted Neistat's subscriber growth to 10K-20K per night
“My YouTube channel that took me, you know, six years, seven years at the time to get from zero subscribers to 400 Thousand subscribers. All of a sudden, every night I'd wake up and there'd be 10,020 thousand new subscribers.”
Dhar Mann: YouTube videos averaged only 1,000 views from 2018 to 2020
“So for two years that happened from the middle of 2018 when we started on YouTube all the way to 20 20, they stayed at around a thousand views. So I completely disregarded YouTube. But on Facebook, we were experiencing rocket ship growth.”
Yassin's college video sending a hamburger to 'space' got 1M views
“Me and my friends were one of the first to send a hamburger to see the curvature of Earth. Not really space, curvature of Earth. We called it space because it's more fun. And it, Did really well. It got a million views.”