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Originally Posted by mzso
A 4+ billion Ed Sheeran song had it up to to 2160p, but a 2+ billion Taylor swift song only has it up to 720p. I managed to find some Wired videos with a couple million views, that have AV1 though.
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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.