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Re:How GitHub Conquered Google, Microsoft, and Everyone Else by hyperbovine on Thursday March 12, 2015 @03:57PM (#9193392)
Google sells ads. Something like 98% of their revenue is ads. I seriously think they are at this point becoming allergic to any sort of for-pay business model.
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Re:How GitHub Conquered Google, Microsoft, and Everyone Else by aurora72 on Thursday March 12, 2015 @04:07PM (#9193474)
Just as a little correction, Google makes 6% of its revenue throgh Youtube, so saying 98% is from ads is wrong. Link: http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/permalink/2015/02/27/10-year...
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Re:How GitHub Conquered Google, Microsoft, and Everyone Else by maratd on Thursday March 12, 2015 @04:12PM (#9193514)
> Google makes 6% of its revenue throgh Youtube, so saying 98% is from ads is wrong.

Doesn't Google make money on Youtube by showing ads?

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Re:How GitHub Conquered Google, Microsoft, and Everyone Else by duaneb on Thursday March 12, 2015 @04:48PM (#9193789)
YouTube also sells and rents movies.
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Re:How GitHub Conquered Google, Microsoft, and Everyone Else by ugh123 on Thursday March 12, 2015 @08:53PM (#9195077)
I highly doubt even .5% of their revenue comes from that.
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Re:How GitHub Conquered Google, Microsoft, and Everyone Else by huu on Thursday March 12, 2015 @04:32PM (#9193680)
Google has ad revenue sources that are not Youtube. Like you said, Youtube represents only a small part of its revenue stream, but this doesn't mean its revenue stream is not dominated by selling ads.
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Re:How GitHub Conquered Google, Microsoft, and Everyone Else by cobalt on Thursday March 12, 2015 @04:15PM (#9193541)
well, afaik, youtube makes 100% of its money from ads
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Re:How GitHub Conquered Google, Microsoft, and Everyone Else by arobertson on Thursday March 12, 2015 @04:46PM (#9193770)
Not that it really matters, but they do rent movies

https://www.youtube.com/user/movies

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