• @AdrianTheFrog
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    95 months ago

    Yeah, I keep hearing that Youtube has probably never made a net profit.

    • Karyoplasma
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      5 months ago

      Not because they couldn’t but because they willfully operated at a loss to quench potential competition. The reason there is no replacement on YT is that all the content is on YT and creators won’t shift to other platforms because their whole audience is on YT as well.

      YT is not a video sharing platform anymore, it’s a market. And that’s why it sucks so bad.

    • @[email protected]
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      145 months ago

      There’s no way to know, Google doesn’t report YouTube profit separately in their financial statements. The closest department is “Google services” which does have a 34% profit margin.

    • @ZILtoid1991
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      35 months ago

      And this will be more expensive to implement than regular ads, thus margins will be even thinner…