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Re:Blender is testing PeerTube after YouTube blocks their vi... by southerndrift on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @05:29PM (#17350425)
I am curious, too.

The blog post mentions 1M views [1]. At €1 per TB [2], and assuming a video of 100Mb which are roughly 1GB, you end up with 1000TB a €1000.

Even if Google just pays a fraction like $0.1 per TB, they still have to earn $100 somewhere else to break even.

[1]: https://www.blender.org/media-exposure/youtube-blocks-blende...

[2]: https://www.hetzner.com/cloud

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Re:Blender is testing PeerTube after YouTube blocks their vi... by lev99 on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @07:57PM (#17351289)
> Even if Google just pays a fraction like $0.1 per TB, they still have to earn $100 somewhere else to break even.

1. The bad press generated is easily worth more than $100.

2. Youtube exercises the option recommend other videos. Blender gave them 1M opportunities to attract attention to other videos that are monetized.

3. Blender's videos were probably much larger than 100MB. I remember watching several that were over 30mins.

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