Not exactly a great article. Random analyst quoted by newspaper pulls some number out of thin air. How does he know how well YouTube is performing? In fact, ca

Not exactly a great article. Random analyst quoted by newspaper pulls some number out of thin air. How does he know how well YouTube is performing? In fact, can you even quantify how well YouTube is performing? It's like a part of our culture now. And Google, a corporation, runs it. I imagine he's generating that number by estimating how much bandwidth YouTube is pushing, and then how much it costs to serve it? Guess what: Google owns a large chunk of the pipes that carry the data. They pay a lot (I remember YouTube Live was done partially through Akamai, due to the huge incidental load) but it's not what normal people have to pay to host stuff through, say, Amazon S3 or whatever. Right now, I don't think the dollars in/out of YouTube is terribly relevant. Then again, I'm probably about as well connected to Google as this random analyst, so whatever :) I don't know jack