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Was wondering so looked up how much YouTube lost per second. > YouTube ads generated $15.15 billion in revenue in fiscal year 2019. So plugged into wolfram al

Was wondering so looked up how much YouTube lost per second. > YouTube ads generated $15.15 billion in revenue in fiscal year 2019. So plugged into wolfram alpha: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/ https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/? i=15.15+billion+dollars+per+number+of+seconds+in+a+year They lose about $480 per second or $1.7MM per hour. Yikes.

jedberg 6y ago
And we know that it isn't flat throughout the day. I imagine this is probably peak earning time for them, assuming they bulk of the revenue is US based.
drilldrive 6y ago
Why MM, is it the standard for million akin to "k" is for thousand?
- jacobwilliamroy 6y ago
  MM looks like "million million" to me, which is the old standard for billion but nowadays a billion is just a thousand million and a million million is a trillion and I am constantly feeling frustrated about how wasteful we are with words for big numbers. But I think in this context MM is a million.
  - drilldrive 6y ago
    That was my exact thoughts seeing MM too yeah, the Roman M symbol meaning thousand clears it up though. Just a historical oddity.
- AnimalMuppet 6y ago
  "M" is the roman numeral for thousand. It is therefore ambiguous. Especially when dealing with money, you really don't want a million to be confused with a thousand.
- Itsdijital 6y ago
  MM means mil mil or 1000 1000. Its the roman numeral for 1,000,000 and typically used today in finance.
  - sorenjan 6y ago
    MM is 2000 in roman numerals though. It's additive, not multiplicative.
    - aeternum 6y ago
      In finance mm is generally accepted to mean million.
- idoh 6y ago
  "Mille" is French for 1,000. So MM = 1,000 * 1,000. M is also used in advertising, like CPM: Cost Per Mille.
soheil 6y ago
Also plus the cost of losing users due to long term adverse effects of this incident.
- byteshock 6y ago
  I don’t think anyone is going to stop using YouTube because of a small downtime. There is really no alternative to it out there.
  - soheil 6y ago
    What about the new users visiting the site for the 1st time in that small downtime window? If their first experience sucks there is likelihood they won't come back. So: (number of new users) x (probability of those users not coming back) x (lifetime value of a youtube user) = I highly doubt this is equal to 0
    - tengbretson 6y ago
      I truly believe that the number of people that navigated to youtube for the first time ever in their lives during that window might actually be 0.
      - soheil 6y ago
        So you believe YT's growth rate == 0?

jedberg 6y ago

And we know that it isn't flat throughout the day. I imagine this is probably peak earning time for them, assuming they bulk of the revenue is US based.

drilldrive 6y ago

Why MM, is it the standard for million akin to "k" is for thousand?

jacobwilliamroy 6y ago
MM looks like "million million" to me, which is the old standard for billion but nowadays a billion is just a thousand million and a million million is a trillion and I am constantly feeling frustrated about how wasteful we are with words for big numbers. But I think in this context MM is a million.
- drilldrive 6y ago
  That was my exact thoughts seeing MM too yeah, the Roman M symbol meaning thousand clears it up though. Just a historical oddity.
AnimalMuppet 6y ago
"M" is the roman numeral for thousand. It is therefore ambiguous. Especially when dealing with money, you really don't want a million to be confused with a thousand.
Itsdijital 6y ago
MM means mil mil or 1000 1000. Its the roman numeral for 1,000,000 and typically used today in finance.
- sorenjan 6y ago
  MM is 2000 in roman numerals though. It's additive, not multiplicative.
  - aeternum 6y ago
    In finance mm is generally accepted to mean million.
idoh 6y ago
"Mille" is French for 1,000. So MM = 1,000 * 1,000. M is also used in advertising, like CPM: Cost Per Mille.

soheil 6y ago

Also plus the cost of losing users due to long term adverse effects of this incident.

byteshock 6y ago
I don’t think anyone is going to stop using YouTube because of a small downtime. There is really no alternative to it out there.
- soheil 6y ago
  What about the new users visiting the site for the 1st time in that small downtime window? If their first experience sucks there is likelihood they won't come back. So: (number of new users) x (probability of those users not coming back) x (lifetime value of a youtube user) = I highly doubt this is equal to 0
  - tengbretson 6y ago
    I truly believe that the number of people that navigated to youtube for the first time ever in their lives during that window might actually be 0.
    - soheil 6y ago
      So you believe YT's growth rate == 0?