Bitrate is the new YouTube "Haves vs. Have Nots"?

[R-Rated]

While jamming out I noticed this come up on a very popular pop star's latest music video for resolution:

And here is what YouTube offers the viewer on one my videos:

Interesting how the HUGE popstar video is at a lower resolution but YouTube wants that coin for bitrate vs. high resolution motovlogging content.

 

[MotoWolfUK]

While jamming out I noticed this come up on a very popular pop star's latest music video for resolution:
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And here is what YouTube offers the viewer on one my videos:

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Interesting how the HUGE popstar video is at a lower resolution but YouTube wants that coin for bitrate vs. high resolution motovlogging content.

Oh, this is interesting! Wonder if the higher bitrate 1080 would be better than a lower bitrate 4k

 

[R-Rated]

Oh, this is interesting! Wonder if the higher bitrate 1080 would be better than a lower bitrate 4k

Me too! We know YouTube throttles the bitrates so is this them trying to allow full bitrate as they should have been all along?

 

[Hippo-Drones]

good spot Anthony!

 

[R-Rated]

good spot Anthony!

Thank you.

I won't embarrass myself with trying to be a popstar just yet.

 

[Drakhen99]

Dang. Now I gotta be a huge star to get better quality video? That's it... I quit.

[not really, I've got too many videos in my backlog to quit now]

-John