> 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

> 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.