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Originally Posted by dapperdan
A YouTube engineer made a comment about people using YouTube as a radio station, but their licence requiring video, so ultra low bitrate AV1 being a kind of workaround for contractual obligations.
So it's possible that YouTube is measuring the bitrate/resolution of these views and prioritising the ones that are viewed at high quality, not just the ones that are viewed a lot. Just a guess though.
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A lot of the "TV for radio" clips have super static backgrounds or just scrolling lyrics. So they should encode down super small with more advanced codecs and long GOPs.