[terafo]

>Videos can be large -- a 10 minute 4k video can be nearly 5gb in size.

Not on YouTube, with the way YouTube compresses video it's usually somewhere around 10 gigabytes for an hour of 4k@60 video.

>Then you need to bandwidth to actually serve all that data. Ideally you have servers geolocated close to the user.

I don't see any serious benefits from decreased latency, if we are talking about video streaming.

[asutekku]

Most users won't watch the video, if they need to wait for too long before it begins.

[terafo]

Even if user is on the other side of the planet latency is somewhere near 500ms. It isn't that much.

[nik736]

Latency isn't important for video streaming, peering is.