“What we found was that people are pretty patient for up to two seconds,” Sitaraman says. “If you start out with, say, 100 users — if the video hasnt started in five seconds, about one-quarter of those viewers are gone, and if the video doesnt start in 10 seconds, almost half of those viewers are gone.”
via In Video-Streaming Rat Race, Fast Is Never Fast Enough : NPR.
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