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Google might. But does YouTube? Should other Google properties subsidize YouTube if it doesn't generate "insane profits" by whatever metric you're using that wo
by pc86 5y ago
Google might. But does YouTube? Should other Google properties subsidize YouTube if it doesn't generate "insane profits" by whatever metric you're using that word?
- edgyquant 5y agoYouTube is the largest social media site (or at least was a couple of years ago.) Google gets a lot more value than just cash out of it, otherwise they’d have shut it down.
- scarface74 5y agoWhat value does Google get out of YouTube besides the minuscule profit?
- edgyquant 5y agoHaving complete control over the vast majority of internet video content
- scarface74 5y agoThere is nothing stopping content producers from hosting their own content on something like S3+CloudFront or the cheaper (than AWS) alternatives.
- spixy 5y agoand yet they are not doing it
- scarface74 5y agoAnd thus you are stuck with crappy public cable access channel style content…
- _Algernon_ 5y agoThe second largest search engine and all the data that entails.