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I think this gentleman has a radically different understanding of the proportion of businesses versus content leeches on Youtube than I do. Youtube has something on the order of 500 content consumers per 1 content uploader, and that probably overstates how many content creators are involved, because most users are just reposting things that they have copied.

http://www.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUSN17436388200...

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Combining that number with the 1% estimate (10% seems very optimistic) leaves only $ 20K per month or $240K per year. On googles scale that's probably not worth the effort and risc.

This is a great point. Let's go backwards. There are somewhere around 50MM businesses in the united states alone...

How about if 1% of those have you tube accounts where they have added content. Does that make more sense?

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