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Final Note

We’ve watched millions of years worth of YouTube videos

Kai Ryssdal May 12, 2016
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Final Note

We’ve watched millions of years worth of YouTube videos

Kai Ryssdal May 12, 2016
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Some of the fine print from a Wall Street research report out the other day:

Those are the people we’re talking about when we say Wall Street analysts, as we sometimes do.

Anyway, this one from Bernstein Research was on the future of the video economy YouTube, Amazon, all the rest.

The caveat here is that YouTube doesn’t disclose its numbers, but the estimates are mind boggling.

Here’s just one.

To date, YouTube videos have been watched an estimated 39 trillion times for approximately 196 trillion minutes, or nearly 400 million years.

Right?

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