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> The reason YouTube is, and will remain, the pre-eminent video platform is because it was run at a profound loss for over a decade, losing hundreds of millions
by mbesto 7y ago
> The reason YouTube is, and will remain, the pre-eminent video platform is because it was run at a profound loss for over a decade, losing hundreds of millions of dollars at a clip, for no reason other than to totally suppress competition.
No one actually knows whether YT is technically profitable as a sole entity. So the premise of your argument and the argument you're referring to is basically flawed unless you have insider information.
- Scoundreller 7y agoAnd practically impossible to determine. How much does Google "earn" by having a better idea of who its audience is? How much does Google "earn" by keeping its competition weak(er)? How much does Google "earn" by being able to speech-to-text all video and increase its corpus of knowledge? How much does Google "earn" by being a better search engine because it can provide video results? How much does Youtube bandwidth "cost" Google when it has links into every exchange there is anyway?