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Zuckerberg could’ve made a YouTube competitor or a Netflix competitor given that he already has a platform for video sharing and an ads infrastructure. But I gu

Zuckerberg could’ve made a YouTube competitor or a Netflix competitor given that he already has a platform for video sharing and an ads infrastructure. But I guess the guys at the top are so smart that they don’t bother themselves when copying ideas to actually copy something that makes sense.

dgellow 4mo ago
Youtube isn't really known to be highly profitable. I'm also not sure people would go to a Facebook YouTube when the normal YouTube exists
- darth_avocado 4mo ago
  Brother, YouTube is quite literally a money printing machine. I don’t know where you’re getting information from.
  - dgellow 4mo ago
    YouTube has a lot of revenue, profit isn't known as far as I'm aware. Alphabet doesn't report YouTube earnings separately, and when they were still sharing that information it was a pretty large amount of losses IIRC. But if you have sources I'm happy to change my mind
    - ahmadyan 4mo ago
      They report YT's earnings, iirc it is about 60B (40B ads + 20B subs) annually, with 10% YoY growth. They don't disclose youtube's profits outside of Google Services (which has ~40% margins), so yes youtube is a money printing machine. And for a long time (pre-AI) youtube was the biggest load on Google's entire infra. The number i recall was ~30% of all Google's cpu utilization was for youtube, and google spent a lot of effort optimizing it.
      - dgellow 4mo ago
        Thanks, I will look into it, my mental model is outdated of what you say is true
      - youngtaff 4mo ago
        When people talk about breaking Google up… YT has always seemed an obvious candidate for separation
twostorytower 4mo ago
They tried. Facebook Watch. It's a total disaster.
- thejazzman 4mo ago
  I thought that was a hardware device for your wrist. Wow.
solid_fuel 4mo ago
> Zuckerberg could’ve made a YouTube competitor or a Netflix competitor given that he already has a platform for video sharing and an ads infrastructure Facebook has no content production experience though, and when they do dip their toes into that market its via AI slop (like their official AI accounts on instagram). I think this is because they don't value the human element of art at all. They would be entirely reliant other content providers, which is a rough place to be in when you have to deal with actual studios and not just independent creators. Independent creators are easier for Facebook to exploit since they are usually small operations and dependent on facebook/instagram for market reach.

dgellow 4mo ago

Youtube isn't really known to be highly profitable. I'm also not sure people would go to a Facebook YouTube when the normal YouTube exists

darth_avocado 4mo ago
Brother, YouTube is quite literally a money printing machine. I don’t know where you’re getting information from.
- dgellow 4mo ago
  YouTube has a lot of revenue, profit isn't known as far as I'm aware. Alphabet doesn't report YouTube earnings separately, and when they were still sharing that information it was a pretty large amount of losses IIRC. But if you have sources I'm happy to change my mind
  - ahmadyan 4mo ago
    They report YT's earnings, iirc it is about 60B (40B ads + 20B subs) annually, with 10% YoY growth. They don't disclose youtube's profits outside of Google Services (which has ~40% margins), so yes youtube is a money printing machine. And for a long time (pre-AI) youtube was the biggest load on Google's entire infra. The number i recall was ~30% of all Google's cpu utilization was for youtube, and google spent a lot of effort optimizing it.
    - dgellow 4mo ago
      Thanks, I will look into it, my mental model is outdated of what you say is true
    - youngtaff 4mo ago
      When people talk about breaking Google up… YT has always seemed an obvious candidate for separation

twostorytower 4mo ago

They tried. Facebook Watch. It's a total disaster.

thejazzman 4mo ago
I thought that was a hardware device for your wrist. Wow.

solid_fuel 4mo ago

> Zuckerberg could’ve made a YouTube competitor or a Netflix competitor given that he already has a platform for video sharing and an ads infrastructure Facebook has no content production experience though, and when they do dip their toes into that market its via AI slop (like their official AI accounts on instagram). I think this is because they don't value the human element of art at all. They would be entirely reliant other content providers, which is a rough place to be in when you have to deal with actual studios and not just independent creators. Independent creators are easier for Facebook to exploit since they are usually small operations and dependent on facebook/instagram for market reach.