Not really. It’s what draws a lot of people to Google’s platform. Then they sell your data. It can be a loss leader. In fact, it probably has to to survive.
I’d be surprised. It’s extremely expensive to store, process, and stream that much video data. Google also doesn’t, as I understand, sell data to third-parties; they use it to target ads for their own ad network, and while I’m sure viewing habits contribute a lot towards making that targeting more valuable, they’re still dealing with extremely high operating costs, and those have to be at least somewhat balanced with actual direct revenue.
YouTube has to be profitable somehow
Not really. It’s what draws a lot of people to Google’s platform. Then they sell your data. It can be a loss leader. In fact, it probably has to to survive.
I’d be surprised. It’s extremely expensive to store, process, and stream that much video data. Google also doesn’t, as I understand, sell data to third-parties; they use it to target ads for their own ad network, and while I’m sure viewing habits contribute a lot towards making that targeting more valuable, they’re still dealing with extremely high operating costs, and those have to be at least somewhat balanced with actual direct revenue.