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This is just another case of a major problem with user generated video sites - nobody has figured out how to make any money off of them. Maybe Google will event
by hendzen 17y ago
This is just another case of a major problem with user generated video sites - nobody has figured out how to make any money off of them. Maybe Google will eventually make Youtube profitable, but how much time and money have they invested already?
- blhack 17y agoDon't be so quick to assume that youtube is losing money. Most of the analysis (and by that I mean guesses) of their financials assume that they're spending gargantuan amounts of money on bandwidth. What the people making these [un]educated guesses seem to ignore is that google is effectively a tier 1 bandwidth provider. It's very likely that they're paying little to nothing for bandwidth. This is, of course, also just a huge guess.
- _delirium 17y agoWhile it seems likely that's true (to me, anyway), it does still mean that for anyone who isn't a tier 1 ISP, and therefore does have to pay out the gargantuan bandwidth costs, it's quite difficult to profit from video websites.