How much is YouTube worth today?

Re:How much is YouTube worth today? by asimpletune on Sunday November 22, 2020 @05:20PM (#25181663)

Becoming a paid subscriber for YouTube has been an amazing decision, and I'm so glad to read that 10% of their revenue comes from paid subscribers, while only representing 1% of their user base. It means a paid model could potentially be more competitive than an adtech one!

I sincerely wish more current adtech businesses offered premium tiers.

How much would you pay/month for a really good search engine?

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Re:How much is YouTube worth today? by dasil003 on Sunday November 22, 2020 @05:46PM (#25181842)

Yes, but why do 1% subscribe? Because everything is on YouTube. Why is everything on YouTube? Because it's free to use. The question then is: how do you keep the flywheel turning without ads?

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Re:How much is YouTube worth today? by viraptor on Sunday November 22, 2020 @11:01PM (#25183448)

> Yes, but why do 1% subscribe? Because everything is on YouTube.

There may be also a quite a few subscribing for GPM / TYM. We'll see if that number drops after the migration.

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Re:How much is YouTube worth today? by ForHackernews on Sunday November 22, 2020 @06:23PM (#25182050)

Ask Netflix

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Re:How much is YouTube worth today? by mcintyre1994 on Sunday November 22, 2020 @06:35PM (#25182107)

Their answer is to spend a little over $17 billion on content this year, ie a little over YouTube’s total estimated revenue according to this article.

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Re:How much is YouTube worth today? by ksec on Monday November 23, 2020 @02:46AM (#25184425)

Correct me if I am wrong.

The 10% of revenue from Paid Subscribers comes with Youtube Music for free. So people are not really subscribing to YouTube Ad Free. They are more like like buying Youtube Music and get Ad Free Youtube as a Bonus.

Which would have been perfect if Youtube Music was actually any good, But it is not. It is even worst than Apple Music.

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Re:How much is YouTube worth today? by trident1000 on Sunday November 22, 2020 @08:12PM (#25182627)

I pay as well. They need to get these damn ads off my Xbox (same account as PC) which they have not implemented. Worth it though.

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Re:How much is YouTube worth today? by tomcam on Monday November 23, 2020 @12:37AM (#25183892)

I pay for it too. Basically I use YouTube has a podcast medium. Not sure why, but it works great for me.

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