top | item 46970828 (no title) dolphinscorpion | 19 days ago Why would Netflix cost less to run when YT is mostly user generated content? Am I missing something? Both have to stream it discuss order hn newest LiamPowell|19 days ago Netflix has a far smaller catalogue and can cache content in exchanges very close to the user, see [1]. Also YouTube pays their creators.[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Connect danpalmer|19 days ago Google has its Global Cache: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Global_CacheOne might imagine that the cache-ability is lower than Netflix, I can't comment on this, but GGC is very significant. zommah|19 days ago Netflix is a production studio with an app, Youtube is a hosting service.500 hours of video getting uploaded a min plus processing costs (including AI) for no upfront $$s. Far simpler CDN optimization aaronblohowiak|19 days ago Fewer unique video hours, YouTube pays residuals, vastly smaller library to personalize
LiamPowell|19 days ago Netflix has a far smaller catalogue and can cache content in exchanges very close to the user, see [1]. Also YouTube pays their creators.[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Connect danpalmer|19 days ago Google has its Global Cache: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Global_CacheOne might imagine that the cache-ability is lower than Netflix, I can't comment on this, but GGC is very significant.
danpalmer|19 days ago Google has its Global Cache: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Global_CacheOne might imagine that the cache-ability is lower than Netflix, I can't comment on this, but GGC is very significant.
zommah|19 days ago Netflix is a production studio with an app, Youtube is a hosting service.500 hours of video getting uploaded a min plus processing costs (including AI) for no upfront $$s. Far simpler CDN optimization
aaronblohowiak|19 days ago Fewer unique video hours, YouTube pays residuals, vastly smaller library to personalize
LiamPowell|19 days ago
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Connect
danpalmer|19 days ago
One might imagine that the cache-ability is lower than Netflix, I can't comment on this, but GGC is very significant.
zommah|19 days ago
500 hours of video getting uploaded a min plus processing costs (including AI) for no upfront $$s. Far simpler CDN optimization
aaronblohowiak|19 days ago