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Their transcode, storage, and compute costs are what lead me to also believe YouTube is not profitable, or just barely profitable.

• markdown 6y ago
  If those costs were high they'd have long ago banned the spam accounts that upload autogenerated garbage.
  • ijpsud 6y ago
    "[In Q3 2018] YouTube removed about 1.67 million channels and all of the 50.2 million videos that were available from them. Nearly 80% of the channel takedowns related to spam uploads, YouTube said." https://www.businessinsider.com/r-youtube-under-pressure-for-problem-content-takes-down-58-million-videos-in-quarter-2018-12 https://www.businessinsider.com/r-youtube-under-pressure-for... The remaining 20% were apparently taken down due to nudity and other policy violations. To be clear: I have no idea whether they're profitable or not. Just pointing out this article.
    • markdown 6y ago
      Thanks.