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Don'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 ga
by blhack 17y ago
Don'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.