redcalcium@lemmy.institute to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agoYouTube Premium announces 100 million subscribersarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square119fedilinkarrow-up1192arrow-down134
arrow-up1158arrow-down1external-linkYouTube Premium announces 100 million subscribersarstechnica.comredcalcium@lemmy.institute to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agomessage-square119fedilink
minus-squarerickyrigatoni@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22arrow-down2·9 months agoThat’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.
minus-squaretb_@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·9 months agoThat depends on how they count family plans as well as the region of those subscribers (not every region has the same price).
minus-squaredtrain@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·9 months agoYou 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 from YouTube Premium membership,money from this revenue stream%3F
minus-squaredtrain@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·9 months agoHow public discourse works, brah.
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.
That depends on how they count family plans as well as the region of those subscribers (not every region has the same price).
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 from YouTube Premium membership,money from this revenue stream%3F
didn’t ask
How public discourse works, brah.