The Infrastructure of Youtube -Shane Lussier

YouTube is a video sharing website. According the last study done on the company, 20 hours of video is added to the site every minute. This would require YouTube to increase its storage capacity by 21 terabytes every day.  YouTube is said use 504 000 of Google’s 900 000 Petabyte server capacity. To put this in a more visual point of view. It would take 7 875 000, 64GB iPhones to handle that much information. With the price of a 1 TB hard drive costing around $50, it would cost YouTube around $3.8 Million to maintain the increase flow of data coming in every year. This is nothing compared to what YouTube earns every year. YouTube is estimated to make over $10 Billion dollars in revenue every year. YouTube makes most of its money placing ads and surveys before videos paid by advertisers. YouTube was sold to Google in 2006 for $1.65 Billion and is now estimated at $40 Billion. People might think YouTube’s $10 Billion yearly revenue isn’t a lot compared to other social media sites but making money isn’t its only use. Google recovers a huge amount of data from YouTube viewers every day which they then sell off to companies for undisclosed amounts of money. In the millions of dollars for sure. This is one more reason for Google being the mega-giant corporation it is today. They know everything they need to know about the demographics of the world.