Comments on: YouTube Flipflops Users, Limiting Video Duration Again http://jungleg.com/2009/02/11/youtube-flipflops-users-limiting-video-duration-again/ Empowering businesses to leverage the new web economy Fri, 03 Sep 2010 18:17:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: David http://jungleg.com/2009/02/11/youtube-flipflops-users-limiting-video-duration-again/comment-page-1/#comment-5048 David Fri, 23 Apr 2010 00:32:12 +0000 http://jungleg.com/?p=396#comment-5048 Obviously in the net business its not the consumer they care about. Obviously in the net business its not the consumer they care about.

]]> By: COMALite J http://jungleg.com/2009/02/11/youtube-flipflops-users-limiting-video-duration-again/comment-page-1/#comment-2516 COMALite J Thu, 03 Sep 2009 18:43:12 +0000 http://jungleg.com/?p=396#comment-2516 Just so you know, the reason for the 10-minute limit is not to save infrastructure costs (as you say, only the file size is relevant to that), but two-fold: #1, to inhibit uploads of TV shows, movies, and other copyrighted material (TV shows are generally at least 11 minutes long for ¼-hour time slots [4 minutes for commercials], and of course most TV show episodes are at least ½-hour time slots and thus about 22½ minutes). Of course, most people just get around this by breaking them up into parts, and there are numerous illegally uploaded movies and TV shows on YouTube™ to this very day, despite the brazillion-dollar lawsuit from Viacom®). #2, to increase numbers of individual videos viewed (and thus potential ads displayed on Partner videos and search pages). Obviously, if they’re shorter, people can view more in the same time period. Time, also, is a resource. Just so you know, the reason for the 10-minute limit is not to save infrastructure costs (as you say, only the file size is relevant to that), but two-fold:

#1, to inhibit uploads of TV shows, movies, and other copyrighted material (TV shows are generally at least 11 minutes long for ¼-hour time slots [4 minutes for commercials], and of course most TV show episodes are at least ½-hour time slots and thus about 22½ minutes). Of course, most people just get around this by breaking them up into parts, and there are numerous illegally uploaded movies and TV shows on YouTube™ to this very day, despite the brazillion-dollar lawsuit from Viacom®).

#2, to increase numbers of individual videos viewed (and thus potential ads displayed on Partner videos and search pages). Obviously, if they’re shorter, people can view more in the same time period. Time, also, is a resource.

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