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Originally Posted by stickycarrots
That's awesome. Congrats to the guys at YouTube for sure. I've been reading articles lately on how YouTube will fail because they aren't making any money. Not quite  |
They are definitely making money but nobody really knows what their monthly bandwidth costs total (reports vary between $1m to $2m a month) With 100m videos viewed a day, it has to be at least $2m+. Although for Google, this is peanuts as they already have tons of extra bandwidth and are experts in this area.
This site breaks down the possible ad revenue that they might be pulling in -
http://www.watchmojo.com/web/blog/?p=500#
Depending on the structure of the deal, all 67 employees of YouTube will likely all become millionaires. Based on investors receiving about 40%, founders getting about 40%, and 20% for employees.