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Source of income of You tube..

Discussion in 'Shopping' started by baagish, Nov 12, 2008.

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    What is the source of income of You tube?
     
    baagish, Nov 12, 2008 IP
  2. nshahidch

    nshahidch Peon

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    I think that is free and you can't earn from it...
     
    nshahidch, Nov 13, 2008 IP
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    barbusergiu Banned

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    #3
    they earn from diferent sources.
     
    barbusergiu, Nov 13, 2008 IP
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    g_bot Well-Known Member

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    Am i replying to yet another Youtube Cloner ???

    Dah! Anyways, youtube has several 'tubes' that flow the money!

    Advertisement being one of them....
     
    g_bot, Nov 13, 2008 IP
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    g_bot Well-Known Member

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    I thionk he was asking about earnings of Youtube.com

    And for Youtube Posters, they can make money! Youtube now lets you integrate your adsense account with Youtube Vids..
     
    g_bot, Nov 13, 2008 IP
  6. baagish

    baagish Peon

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    I am asking about how You tube earns. If it is free to upload video there then what is its source of income?
     
    baagish, Nov 13, 2008 IP
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    Emmy18 Peon

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    The source of earning are hidden, what would you do with sources?
     
    Emmy18, Nov 14, 2008 IP
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    #8
    by advertisements
     
    UncleBun, Nov 21, 2008 IP
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    sometime I saw ads show on youtube. may be adsense
     
    kevinmk, Nov 22, 2008 IP
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    When google bought YouTube, it didn't make money.
    They have advertisement on youtube, and that helps
    pay for hosting, but I am not sure it makes a profit yet.
     
    ih82lose, Nov 22, 2008 IP
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    Well as google gets a lot of clicks via youtube on their ads, they earn money, but they don't need to pay money to theirselfs...
    So that's main income...

    But they pay a huge amount of money every year, for all copyrighted materials, that's why they now made channels... but as far as I know, youtube doesn't earn with these channels...

    Well I'm sure there are a lot other things, but I don't know all of them...

    Greetz
     
    Aquarezz, Nov 22, 2008 IP
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    pjk Well-Known Member

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    I often wonder how much profit YouTube makes. I think forces ads at the beginning of the more popular videos would do well. Allowing for an upgraded membership that gets rid of them would help too.
     
    pjk, Nov 22, 2008 IP
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    Aquarezz Notable Member

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    Also.. Sometimes I see ads from google adsense ON the video... the background is transparent, but there are probably a lot of fake clicks, as it is just above the 'play' button...

    Greetz
     
    Aquarezz, Nov 22, 2008 IP
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    You know those pop ups and ads on the side of the page? COmpanies pay big bucks to put them there.
     
    RichardG87, Nov 23, 2008 IP
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    I never had one popup on youtube? Or is it only me?

    But also the 'featured videos' are probably a high source of income for them ;)

    Greetz
     
    Aquarezz, Nov 23, 2008 IP
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    rappu Peon

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    Froosh over at hipmojo.com argues that YouTube is "wildly profitable" and estimates the company pulls down $7.5 million a month in revenue. Venture capitalist Fred Wilson says Froosh's analsysis is not "crazy math," but I'd argue it is sketchy and decidedly optimistic math.

    Let's go to the numbers…. Froosh's income statement for YouTube looks like this:

    Home page ads: $175,000 a day x 30 days a month = $5.25 million in revenue
    One ad per videostream served @ 100,000,000 streams a day @ a $0.50 to $2.00 CPM = $50,000 to $200,000 x 30 days = $1,500,000 to $6,000,000 in revenue
    For a total of about $7.5 million a month in revenue.

    Says Froosh: "Call me crazy, but that means that just with its main page alone, YouTube more than covers its bandwidth charge…"

    Well, not so fast.

    First, let's look at the numbers Froosh relies on. According to PaidContent, Froosh's source for the numbers on which he builds his projections, which does notYouTube is probably still running in the red.seem to have verified the financial terms of the home page placement conclusively (in comments, the reporter says it is "speculative"), the $175,000 generates about 400,000 viewers for the advertiser. This language suggests that it is may be a CPC deal, rather than CPM-based and that makes more sense since the CPM at $175,000 per day with 400,000 viewers would be $437.50, which is high-bubble pricing that, to my knowledge, no one pays for impression-based advertising today.

    If it is a CPC deal and YouTube is generating one click in 50 impressions, it would take 20 million impressions to generate 400,000 viewers. Given that the site has about 40 million streams a day, it's not beyond the realm of possibility that they generate that many clicks, but one wonders whether the home page is seen even a small fraction of the time—many streams come from embedded players, so there is no actual contact with the YouTube site.

    The second problem with Froosh's numbers is that he uses the figure 100,000,000 video streams a day to calculate other ad revenues. PaidContent reports that YouTube streams only 40 million videos a day—less than half the basis of Froosh's revenue calculation. And some of that inventory is presumably consumed by the front page placement (which would assume a home page clickthrough rate of four percent, not beyond reason, but close), so let's say that YouTube has free inventory of perhaps 30 million impressions a day, not 100 million.

    If that's the case, at CPMs of between $0.50 and $2.00, the potential revenue is only $15,000 to $60,000 a day, as little as $450,000 a month.

    Now, let's discount all the revenue by 20 perent to account for the cost of sales. And, because no sale is unnegotiated, let's assume that many customers are paying less than the rate card. We can't guess what the actual fees are, because they are unpublished and "speculative" at this point, but we can assume that some of the days of the month are not fully paid placements on the home page, whether because of discounts or make-goods on inventory needed to meet advertiser expectations.

    So, that's 20 percent off revenue for sales cost and let's say 20 percent off for discounts and make-goods, so the company is really only likely to be making $175,000 on its home page every other day or so. At a 40 percent discount for sales and discounts, the monthly revenue from the home page leaves $3.15 million a month from the premium placement on the home page.

    Now, the CPM rate Froosh used for his calculation of other revenue is pretty optimistic. Much of the AdSense inventory may sell for pennies, rather than dimes or dollars, for example. I'm only going to say that a $0.50 CPM is very aggressive and, therefore, YouTube probably makes less than Froosh estimates. For argument's sake, let's agree they make the low end of Froosh's estimates, another $1,500,000 a month.

    Now, it looks more like YouTube's monthly revenue is probably closer to $4.65 million. That still feels high, but I'm willing to live with it. Does that make YouTube "wildly profitable" and Froosh argues?

    Short answer: No. PaidContent does provide a figure for bandwidht used daily by YouTube, about 200 terabytes a day. I've looked into streaming and downloading bandwidth pricing and find that most providers are offering a Gigabyte of throughput for around $0.85. That would place YouTube's daily bandwidth costs at $170,000, or $5.1 million a month.

    Let's be really aggressive and assume YouTube is getting a deep discount from Limelight Networks, its hosting provider (though probably in trade for equity, which investors need to be leery about, because it dilutes the value of future shares and may represent a big increase in real costs if the deal lapses). If Limelight is charging $0.45 a Gigabyte for throughput, YouTube's costs are $90,000 a day and $2.7 million a month.

    But throughput isn't all the costs YouTube is paying for. Storage of all that data costs something, especially as you have to replicate data across the world to support high-performance playback. These costs are factored into Limelight's pricing. In other words, Limelight is probably charging something closer to $0.65 per Gigabyte than $0.45.

    Let's revise the bandwidth costs up to account for storage and maintenance costs to $130,000 a day and $3.9 million a month.

    I've never seen employee numbers for YouTube, but if it isn't 50 people I'd be surprised. At an average salary of $50,000 a year, the company is looking at about a quarter million a month for salaries. Add other overhead, such as office space, computers, accounting and marketing, and you're looking at about $400,000 to $450,000 a month in salaries and general and administrative costs.

    So, finally, back to the numbers. Is YouTube "wildly profitable"? If we take the adjusted numbers and add in expenses, the answer is certainly "No."

    Total Revenue is $4.65 million a month after sales costs and discounts.
    Bandwidth/Hosting Costs: $3.9 million a month
    Salaries, G&A and other costs: $450,000 a month
    Profit = $300,000 a month or a net margin of about 6.4 percent.

    That looks like YouTube may be breaking even, but we've been generous in revenue calculations and, perhaps, in the cost of people and operations. YouTube is probably still running in the red.
     
    rappu, Nov 26, 2008 IP
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    only if your video have anuff viewers otherwise youtube don't let you place ads.
     
    jonathon, Nov 26, 2008 IP
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    2rappu: thank's! good report
     
    greg67, Nov 26, 2008 IP
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    Youtube does not use Limelight networks any more and they havn't for a while. I belive they are using googles datacenters now. When they did use Limelight I think they paid limelight around 1 million per month.

    You know what I've noticed is that the quality and speed of youtube dropped significantly after they left Limelight. Now the video's trickle in at 50-60k which sucks for fastforwarding. Back when they were on limelight they let the pipe open and would max out my cable connection.
     
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    Youtube does not gain


    check wikipedia you will know the exact details (daily band width usage and much more)
     
    suganindia, Nov 29, 2008 IP