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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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