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Is youtube still being operated at a loss? If google runs a video sharing platform at or near a loss, funded by cash they get from search ads, then how can any

Is youtube still being operated at a loss? If google runs a video sharing platform at or near a loss, funded by cash they get from search ads, then how can any other company possibly compete with them? By also running a video sharing platform at or near a loss? There is a very small number of companies that could conceivably do that. This is precisely why google needs to be broken up.

v7p1Qbt1im 7y ago
By your logic there would be no YouTube. Or no user generated video at all. I imagine most people (including me) wouldn‘t like that.
- darkpuma 7y ago
  > "By your logic there would be no YouTube." In it's current form, no, and I'm fine with that. I'd like to see what a self-sustaining youtube alternative looks like. The status quo is not divine providence.
  - erklik 7y ago
    > I'd like to see what a self-sustaining youtube alternative looks like. Could one even exist while Youtube does?
  - v7p1Qbt1im 7y ago
    > I'd like to see what a self-sustaining youtube alternative looks like. What does that even mean? Clearly another platform of similar popularity would end up heaving the exact same problems.