Ah 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

Ah 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.