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> Google is making money hosting these videos This isn't certain. Google do not break out Youtube revenues nor costs. Hosting this amount of videos, globally,
by sofixa 1y ago
> Google is making money hosting these videos
This isn't certain. Google do not break out Youtube revenues nor costs. Hosting this amount of videos, globally, redundantly, the vast majority of which are basically never watched, cannot be cheap.
It's entirely plausible that Google's wider benefit from Youtube (such as training video generation algorithms and better behaviour tracking for better targeted ads across the internet) are enough to compensate for Youtube in particular losing money.
- 1024core 1y ago> Google do not break out Youtube revenues nor costs. Google does break out Youtube revenue. Latest 10-K: https://abc.xyz/assets/77/51/9841ad5c4fbe85b4440c47a4df8d/goog-10-k-2024.pdf https://abc.xyz/assets/77/51/9841ad5c4fbe85b4440c47a4df8d/go... See page 10, for youtube Ads revenue.
- sofixa 1y agoMy bad, I thought it's the two. But they don't break out costs, so in reality we don't know if YouTube is profitable or not.