On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Rupert <[email protected]> wrote: > This is from the Seattle Times last week. Credit Suisse analyst says > YouTube will cost Google $470m. Bandwidth costs them $360m, content > rights cost them $252m, but sales from advertising are only $240m (um, > "only").
This just got Slashdotted: http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/14/1630239 They break down the numbers by viewer and day which is interesting: "The average visitor to YouTube is costing Google between one and two > dollars, according to new research that shows Google losing up to $1.65 > million per day on the video site. More than two years after Google acquired > YouTube, income from premium offers and other revenue generators don't > offset YouTube's expenses of content acquisition, bandwidth, and storage. > YouTube is expected to serve 75 billion video streams to 375 million unique > visitors in 2009, costing Google up to $2,064,054 a day, or $753 million > annualized. Revenue projections for YouTube fall between $90 million and > $240 million." Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://jaydedman.com http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
