Characteristics and Potentials of YouTube: A Measurement Study

Xu Cheng, Cameron Dale and Jiangchuan Liu
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Xu Cheng: Simon Fraser University
Cameron Dale: Simon Fraser University
Jiangchuan Liu: Simon Fraser University

Chapter 9 in Peer-to-Peer Video, 2008, pp 205-217 from Springer

Abstract: Established in 2005, YouTube is one of the fastest-growing websites, and has become one of the most accessed sites in the Internet. It has a significant impact on the Internet traffic distribution, but itself is suffering from severe scalability constraints. Understanding the features of YouTube and similar video sharing sites is thus crucial to network traffic engineering and to sustainable development of this new generation of services. In this paper, we present an in-depth and systematic measurement study on the characteristics of YouTube videos. We crawled the YouTube site for a 3-month period in early 2007, and obtained more than 2 million distinct videos. This constitutes a significant portion of the entire YouTube video repository. Using this collection of datasets, we find that YouTube videos have noticeably different statistics from traditional streaming videos, such as video length.

Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-76450-4_9

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