A 10Gbit connection at HE is going to cost you roughly $2,000/month, or about $65/day. That will serve your 49MB video roughly 2 million times a day. Let’s go

A 10Gbit connection at HE is going to cost you roughly $2,000/month, or about $65/day. That will serve your 49MB video roughly 2 million times a day. Let’s go with 50% average utilization, and say that means we need to monetize roughly 0.0065 cents per view to cover the bandwidth cost. I think YouTube charges something like 10 cents per ad view, but won’t charge if the user clicks Skip in that 5 second window. I’m not sure what percent of views result in a billable ad, but anecdotally I’ve heard it’s surprisingly high. I would assume storage is a much bigger cost factor, to say nothing of paying the engineers to develop and support the infrastructure.