How is it profitable for Google to keep petabytes of garbage like this in their data centers?
How is it profitable for Google to keep petabytes of garbage like this in their data centers?
Isaiah Gonzalez
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Matthew Young
literal cia money
Jaxon Clark
At least they're not filling their brain with that garbage.
Leo Richardson
Youtube is not profitable. They are losing tens of millions every year.
Hudson Bennett
It isn't. I give it at most 5 years until they start deleting videos that are long, old or have little views.
Gavin Ortiz
the purpose of building that platform is to ban people they don't like, and the fact that they're burning money on it is a feature not a bug
Asher Gonzalez
Not true since 2017.
Keep up with the times retard.
Jace Hall
Ads, ads, ads.
Tracking, tracking, tracking.
Matthew Bell
we have transcended the need for work, but our system still requires a constant exchange of value to function. see, google sells useless adds so that useless companies can sell their useless scam/non-products to useless mindhive consumers. this is keeps the wheel spinning and prevents society from colapsing
Carter Turner
It's not, but they want to control the spread of information so they do it anyway. Only Amazon or Facebook could compete with them on this front because of the sheer amount of money needed, but Twitch is mostly for streaming which reduces the storage costs and Facebook is not a video-only platform
Owen Hall
Virtually unlimited storage (aka money).
Adam Thompson
Google believes in the cloud model where you are using their mainframe for your computing. They will need to let you store some files.
You can roughly calculate the data they need to store for YouTube based on their statements. They said in 2019 more than 500 hours of videos get uploaded every minute. About 30000 hours per hour.[1]
1080p H.264 YouTube coded video is about 2.5GB per hour.
And so per year, 24 hours a day, 365 days in a year, 8760 hours pass in a year. More than 30000 * 8760 = 262800000 hours are uploaded in a year. About 657000000 GB uploaded in a year.
Now we need to get information about the users. Google says in the same year it has about 2 billion active users. 2000000000 active users.[2]
So per active user, about 0.3285 GB of data would need to be saved per year. During the course of 10 years, the average user would need about 3 GB of space on YouTube. Per user, it is not that much.
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Noah Russell
It isn't.
There, that was easy.
Youtube literally hasn't been profitable, ever. It's a gigantic money drain. Google simply keeps it alive by trying to minimize the damage as much as possible, but are quite open about Youtube being an absolute money drain, and was very well aware that it was and will continue to be in all future when they bought it.
Angel Martin
YouTube's advertising revenue in 2019 was $15.14 billion.[1] This means they had a revenue of about $7.57 per user.
Costs:
Storage - about 400 MB/user year (Cost per gigabyte: $0.04)
Traffic
Programming
Management
Creators
Revenue:
$7.57 / user year
We don't know if they turn a profit on YouTube. However, relatively, the cost for hard drive space is not that huge.
Cameron Thomas
Alphabet/Google/Youtube has said quite clearly that Youtube never will turn a profit, and they're keeping it on lifesupport and only trying to minimize the damage.
It will never be profitable and they have no intention of making it so.
It however makes up for it in branding. Good PR. Also great test-platform.
Your information is also severely outdated :
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Robert Brown
This. Websites like YouTube are kept alive by investment firms such as BlackRock, which are owned and controlled by jewish billionaires like Larry Fink. The reason they're kept afloat by these jewish firms is because they serve as propaganda outlets, pushing for war in Ukraine, anti-White racism, billions in "foreign aid" to israel, etc.
They aren't profitable because they don't care if it's profitable. They care about influence.
Leo Perry
Profitable doesn't play into it at all for the modern economy. Banks print the money and the government spends it. In America they like to use a multi colored front to make it look like it's not the governement. But it is. The real governement, banks and what I don't quite want to refer to as the "deep state" but can't find a better term for.
Jaxon Diaz
>Alphabet/Google/Youtube has said quite clearly that Youtube never will turn a profit, and they're keeping it on lifesupport and only trying to minimize the damage.
When was that?
Daniel Russell
they don't need to they use a type of high density storage for these videos. They weight next to nothing. I think it's over 70% compressed.
Jayden Fisher
You can use less expensive storage for data that's not used frequently. Plus they make a lot of money on a small percentage of that content. Consider it a cost of doing business.
Christopher Thompson
>He still thinks it's about money
If it wasn't so terrifying how much of a retard you are then I would be laughing.
Nathaniel Robinson
>I don't quite want to refer to as the "deep state" but can't find a better term for
It's alright, we're all friends here, you can call Jews by name.
Gavin Williams
Thing is I'm part jewish, and I don't quite feel it's fair for me to get blamed, or for my dad who's fully jewish. We're not doing anything. I do know there's quite a few jews doing quite a few things that are objectionable in government and banking, I do. But should we all be blamed ? Philosophically and practically I'm not on their side. Not at all. I align more with National Socialism in fact.