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Goog has search, Gmail, YT and Play store, GCP. All massive assets. Not all of them require ads. YT has a ad free version for subscription. The escape pods are
by tlarkworthy 6y ago
Goog has search, Gmail, YT and Play store, GCP. All massive assets. Not all of them require ads. YT has a ad free version for subscription. The escape pods are there. I would pay $2 a month for my gmail. If pushed (I would be annoyed). But it looks like as of today digital ads is still a good business
- prepend 6y agoOnly search/ads make money. The rest are negligible profit or no profit. So the article was right that Goog is all ads, but those don’t seem to be drying up. I expect that maybe ad views are dropping but they just turn up the prices to compensate. I don’t think we get usage numbers out of them, just that they bring in more revenue and make more profit. Maybe they are just squeezing a shrinking customer base, like cable. But the article doesn’t cover that.