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YouTube 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
by edgyquant 5y ago
YouTube 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.