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What kind of money is that for the space? Assuming a 10 minute video where you want to make $100 you need 100k views. $100 / $.006 per hour = 16667 hours. 16
by donmcronald 6y ago
What kind of money is that for the space? Assuming a 10 minute video where you want to make $100 you need 100k views. $100 / $.006 per hour = 16667 hours. 16667 hours * 6 10 minute views per hour = 100000.
Incidentally, Cloudflare Stream charges the same rates for serving video ($1 per 1000 minutes).
Any idea what kind of money a YouTuber would make off 100k views? Does something like Cloudflare's offering make a suitable backup where they could eat the cost of serving video temporarily if YouTube kicks them off?
I think it's a really hard problem because serving video is so expensive. YouTube must be a huge money pit.
- jhallenworld 6y agoWait, it's .06 not .006 per hour, so 10K views of a 10 minute for $100. Wow, serving video is expensive. I had no idea it was $.06 / hour. I presume Amazon and YouTube have their own CDN or something.
- ryan29 6y agoOh yeah. My bad. I got my degree in math from Verizon. Getting paid $1000 per 100k views sounds ok. On the paying side I'd hate to end up on the hook for a video that goes viral and gets a million views. Keep in mind that Cloudflare is making a profit on that and Amazon, Google probably have lower costs than Cloudflare. Still, it has to be a huge money pit to host that stuff.