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"YouTube generated nearly $5 billion in ad revenue in the last three months, Google revealed today as part of parent company Alphabet’s fourth quarter earnings report."
[1] https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/3/21121207/youtube-google-al...
> Netflix operating expenses for the quarter ending March 31, 2020 were $4.809B, a 18.4% increase year-over-year.
https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/NFLX/netflix/opera...
They're obviously not comparable directly like this, but just based on internet bandwidth usage, they're probably in the same ballpark, but netflix has a far, far easier technical problem. They have a relatively small library that can probably be cached easily. Imagine the infrastructure that is behind a youtube CDN.
https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/4/21121370/youtube-advertisi...
Oh no. How could they make us pay for the software services. Imo, this mentality needs to go. People spend $$$ in cafe, buy expensive branded clothes, transportation, hanging out with their friends, outside food, and so on. All of those are not necessary but they pay for it. They should pay for the digital services they spend most of their time on now a days. What's different?
Which is how I've been watching YouTube, ad-free for years.
Yeah, no. The problem is Sturgeon's Law: 90% of everything is garbage, and people don't like to pay for something that is mostly garbage.
Anecdotal
What is your point here? You want Youtube to be like a cable television company and make money off ads and subscribers?
How does this relate to YouTubes 5BN in revenue?