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YouTube Premium announces 100 million subscribers (arstechnica.com)
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[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago (2 children)

That's over a billion dollars a month. If they're still operating at a loss with all that then it's their own incompetence at fault.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

That depends on how they count family plans as well as the region of those subscribers (not every region has the same price).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You know that’s not pure profit, right? Besides their hardware, development and operational costs, which are substantial, they split that fee with creators.

Source: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6306276?hl=en#:~:text=Revenue%20from%20YouTube%20Premium%20membership,money%20from%20this%20revenue%20stream%3F

[–] [email protected] -4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

didn't ask

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

How public discourse works, brah.