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Well I'd imagine youtube's infrastructure is very expensive. I guess they can no longer pretend the service they provide for free doesn't need to be funded. Wha
by nuc1e0n 4y ago
Well I'd imagine youtube's infrastructure is very expensive. I guess they can no longer pretend the service they provide for free doesn't need to be funded. What did people expect?
- A-Train 4y agoIt is expensive but even then Youtube has been profitable for many years now. It represents 10% of Google revenue. 5-10 ads is a cash grab imho.
- sofixa 4y ago> even then Youtube has been profitable for many years now How do you know this? > It represents 10% of Google revenue. Revenue != profit. Storing zettabytes of videos across the whole world, with the massive CDNs required to be able to serve that whole world isn't cheap. I can easily see YouTube being among the most costly things Google do.
- samtheDamned 4y agounless it changed recently it has never been profitable
- ngokevin 4y agoI expect they profit just fine off of the data they gather alone
- mikymoothrowa 4y agoBut you would think that the company selling “targeted advertisements” wouldn’t have to show 10 ads before every video to get make profit. Profiteering off of their established position. Youtube PMs have OKRs