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>Is YouTube profitable yet? IIRC it has been for years.

• skinnymuch 10y ago
  I've only seen info on it not being profitable assuming you actually account for its actual bandwidth, etc. Do you know where you may have seen it's profitable?
  • wnevets 10y ago
    Looks like I was kinda wrong. http://www.investors.com/news/technology/youtube-valuation-soaring-profits-blurry-as-facebook-amazon-loom/ http://www.investors.com/news/technology/youtube-valuation-s... > But is YouTube profitable? Google has never said. Nor does it disclose viewership data or other financial metrics beyond a few broad statements. > “There’s substantial uncertainty, particularly over the profit levels at YouTube, whether it’s break-even or if they're doing modest operating margins," RBC Capital analyst Mark Mahaney told IBD. “They have a lot of content royalty costs, massive bandwidth costs, storage costs, processing costs.
    • skinnymuch 10y ago
      Yeah interesting but we will likely never get anything close to a number.