Any number of either is going to be huge for Twitch… but this is a no brainer, if a huge chunk of your costs don’t even generate a significant amount of views, muchless actual revenue… yeah it makes sense to stop making storing them.
You’ve probably got something that looks like the US income distrobution chart, probably evennmore extreme, for # of videos vs # view time, ie:
Replace the x axis with ‘videos by watchtime percentile’ and the y axis with ‘actual watchtime’.
So, you draw a horizontal line, everything that doesn’t get above about $150k on this chart is not being watched by enough people to be worth hosting (hosting realtime access to videos for tens of millions of people is very expensive).
Then, work backwards to figure out a cap for storage that applies to everyone, to be more fair than just outright de-listing videos by low recent view count, which will result in roughly the same amount of no longer provided storage, and allow 2 months for people to save off platform whatever they want, and choose how to trim down their hosted videos on their own.
Hours watched != Hours stored.
Any number of either is going to be huge for Twitch… but this is a no brainer, if a huge chunk of your costs don’t even generate a significant amount of views, muchless actual revenue… yeah it makes sense to stop making storing them.
You’ve probably got something that looks like the US income distrobution chart, probably evennmore extreme, for # of videos vs # view time, ie:
Replace the x axis with ‘videos by watchtime percentile’ and the y axis with ‘actual watchtime’.
So, you draw a horizontal line, everything that doesn’t get above about $150k on this chart is not being watched by enough people to be worth hosting (hosting realtime access to videos for tens of millions of people is very expensive).
Then, work backwards to figure out a cap for storage that applies to everyone, to be more fair than just outright de-listing videos by low recent view count, which will result in roughly the same amount of no longer provided storage, and allow 2 months for people to save off platform whatever they want, and choose how to trim down their hosted videos on their own.