How I tried to compete with YouTube and Google with Livevideo.com

Re:How I tried to compete with YouTube and Google with Livev... by bduerst on Thursday July 18, 2019 @06:49PM (#20474720)

And yet, by all accounts and signals, Youtube wasn't profitable for a decade and reportedly barely manages to break even today with a billion users.

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Re:How I tried to compete with YouTube and Google with Livev... by singron on Thursday July 18, 2019 @07:13PM (#20474900)

Do you have a source for this? YouTube isn't broken out separately in Alphabet earning reports and the last anyone authoritative talked about YouTube finances this way was several years ago AFAICT.

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Re:How I tried to compete with YouTube and Google with Livev... by bduerst on Friday July 19, 2019 @02:08PM (#20481053)

By "all accounts and signals", I mean it's basically rumored that Youtube was only barely able to break even with a billion users, which was the target set to make it profitable: https://www.wsj.com/articles/viewers-dont-add-up-to-profit-f...

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Re:How I tried to compete with YouTube and Google with Livev... by nemothekid on Friday July 19, 2019 @08:15AM (#20477940)

There are no hard sources other than "Susan said they weren't profitable" back in 2016.

https://fortune.com/2016/10/18/youtube-profits-ceo-susan-woj...

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