Is it a billion dollar business? Just because Google, reportedly, bought them for a a billion dollars doesn't mean the market is worth that much. Many people in the industry I've talked to seem to think there is a relatively long road ahead (i.e. years) toward some semblance of maturity. If anything, this is a large bet on the future. One that could easily go awry.
Yeh I feel like the term billion dollar business" is meant to reference revenue. Its a bad article.
> The company now operates 15 data centers that handle 55 million unique visitors every month, each of which watches an average of 106 minutes of streaming video a day.
That can't be right, can it? 55M x 100 minutes ... the superbowl is around 100M, so that is a half-superbowl equivalent every day.