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Yes. For comparison, Netflix has about $30B in revenue... paid up front for all of its content (something youtube doesnt) and accounts for a larger percentage o
by rgbrenner 2y ago
Yes. For comparison, Netflix has about $30B in revenue... paid up front for all of its content (something youtube doesnt) and accounts for a larger percentage of internet traffic (likely because of higher quality streams)... and they still made $6B net profit.
- londons_explore 2y agoNetflix content is highly coachable (tiny library Vs YouTube), which dramatically reduces the cost of serving the data to users.
- luke-stanley 2y agoI think londons_explore means "cacheable" - able to be cached. But I don't think either would need to cache the whole catalogue ahead of time.
- joseda-hg 2y agoI thought it was more directed towards "Coachable" as getting to select and train /trend towards more profitable content
- luke-stanley 2y agoYeah I thought that way too at first, it's an interesting take. These days maybe ML could help auto-coach promising content producers. For the other take: maybe pre-caching content that's more cost saving to cache than it is to not cache it can be aided by ML too. But replicating smaller libraries of content at all regional replica nodes is probably more straight forward at first.
- whiplash451 2y agoWhich also means that diversity is a bad deal for Netflix. They have a direct financial incentive to have more people watch the same thing.
- robertlagrant 2y agoIt's not a "bad deal" - there will be lots of factors to consider.