75 billion streams to 375 million unique visitors in 2009? Damn, they're catching up with Twittervlog. It's time I installed that new Wordpress theme.
On 14-Apr-09, at 8:41 PM, Jay dedman wrote: > > > On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Rupert <rup...@fatgirlinohio.org> > 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] > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
