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Even if they spun off the most likely scenario is that YouTube would just create their own ad infrastructure just like every other major tech company. They're n
by minhazm 5y ago
Even if they spun off the most likely scenario is that YouTube would just create their own ad infrastructure just like every other major tech company. They're not going to give away some of their margins, especially at that scale.
Right now they have the advantage that their parent company Google deals with the ads infrastructure for them without any hit to their margins since all the revenue rolls up to the same company anyway.
- wilde 5y agoEven that could be a better outcome. When I worked at Microsoft we often had to “dogfood” some other team’s product even if it was vastly inferior to the front runner. Orgs past a certain size give their managers too many brownie points for making “one solution” that serves the whole company poorly.