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In this thread, the numbers cited (I didn't verify) are: - $50B/year revenue - $70B/3 years in payments to creators Youtube paying out ~50% of revenue to creat
by creato 2y ago
In this thread, the numbers cited (I didn't verify) are:
- $50B/year revenue
- $70B/3 years in payments to creators
Youtube paying out ~50% of revenue to creators seems almost too good to be true to me. That isn't their only cost, the infrastructure of youtube must be insanely expensive. They're almost certainly taking far less in profit than they are paying to creators.
edit: I read the numbers in the thread wrong, $15B/year in subscriptions not $15B/quarter.
- samspenc 2y agoAh that seems more reasonable, with $8.7B a quarter in advertising revenue, that's about $35B a year, so for Youtube annually: - $35B in ad revenue - $15B in subscriptions - (minus) $23B paid out to creators ($70B / 3 years) Which seems to line up with around 50% paid out to creators ($23-24B out of $50B revenue). I don't know how many employees work on Youtube specifically, but even with salaries and infra / CapEx / OpEx costs, they are probably making a decent profit on the remaining $25B they keep annually after payouts.