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Those YouTube ads everyone hates made $10.4 billion in just three months
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this post was submitted on 08 Feb 2025
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I'd love to know their cost of storing all the YT videos and serving them.
YouTube runs at a loss, as far as I am aware. The other businesses prop it up. They run it, even at a loss, because they harvest data from it.