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I'd add Youtube as a huge success, even if I don't think if ever brought in much money

• squarefoot 3y ago
  Google acquired YouTube, they didn't make it, just like Android. At the time Google had Google Video which was terrible in comparison, and although Google was already the most used general purpose search engine, YouTube was so much better that it had already become the standard for publishing and/or searching videos.
  • nostrademons 3y ago
    They also acquired Android, Docs, Sheets, Slides, and many of the precursors of Maps & Ads. There's value in scale. The YouTube founders themselves said they couldn't have grown YouTube without help from Google infrastructure and other business functions. In the mid-00s people were just figuring out how to run an Internet business with billions of daily users; this is a service now externalized through Cloud providers (including Google), but back then "not falling over when you got Slashdotted" was a key competency that Google had but many of the thousands of other Internet startups did not.
• chpatrick 3y ago
  YouTube made $8 billion in ad revenue in Q3 2023, that's more than 10%: https://www.shacknews.com/article/137516/google-googl-q3-2023-youtube-ad-revenue https://www.shacknews.com/article/137516/google-googl-q3-202...
• EasyMark 3y ago
  With all these other video services adding frequent commercial breaks, consuming youtube premium is looking better every day. I absolutely hate-hate-hate commercials while I'm engrossed in a movie, may as well just watch short content on youtube premium.