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Youtube is not making any profit either, I suppose streaming based websites are very difficult to make profitable. Must be the constant growing expenses for ser
by kidsil 11y ago
Youtube is not making any profit either, I suppose streaming based websites are very difficult to make profitable. Must be the constant growing expenses for servers.
- throwaway2048 11y agoAll the sites that have predicted youtube as unprofitable assume google is paying standard bandwidth rates, with the peering arrangements they have with ISPs of virtually any size, they pay next to nothing to reach 95% of end users.
- rileymat2 11y agoI am not sure of the exact details, but "free" video always had a long way to go. I remember one of my favorite sites pre-2000 was adcritic.com, they were essentially only showing ads, and failed.