• Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
      10·
      2 hours ago

      Also why we hiding the name of the YouTuber? Presumably they actually want people to find their content otherwise they wouldn’t have uploaded it.

      This self-censoring epidemic is getting stupid.

  • Shroomshroom@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
    5·
    2 hours ago

    Dunno if my math is wrong, but i think she made more money from youtube than pornhub. So for this particular case youtube is still better besides the low cpm. So im not sure where we going with that. PH ca. 33$ and YT ca. 340$

  • Acidbath@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    3 hours ago

    omfg i remember running into this video like about a year ago. legit good study material :^] (no but fr better than some of my professors). There are also cybersecurity guides but ehh… they all stopped posting.

  • DylanMc6 [any, any]@lemmy.mlEnglish
    10·
    4 hours ago

    i really wish someone would makes a great youtube alternative that pays $1-5 cpm, but DOESN’T shut down like blip or vidme. it DOESN’T have to be a cooprative, but it should. seriously!

    • thevoidzero@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 hours ago

      Storing videos, and streaming them without latency is a huge problem. Specifically if you also have to process for different resolutions and such for different devices.

      Edit: I don’t know how true it is now, but in the past YouTube would have local servers and specific agreements with ISPs for higher bandwidth for them in many countries.

  • NGC2346@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    14·
    6 hours ago

    She’s very suggestive in her choice of dress in most of these videos that are on her pornhub though, so there’s that.

    • leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      19·
      6 hours ago

      The fourth stage is to run away with the money, leaving stockholders and investors with a failed company in their hands which they can’t bring back from the dead because both users and business partners hate it.

    • DylanMc6 [any, any]@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      4 hours ago

      stage 5: revolution - overthrow the oppressive corporate system; nationalize all monopolies, split them into different smaller companies, give those companies to the workers who will collectivize them. seriously!

  • RunawayFixer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    30·
    8 hours ago

    This is another sign of how youtube’s story of “we’ve never made a profit” is bogus. More and more organisations are advertising on youtube, youtube is pushing the limits on the amount of advertising that viewers can stand & at the same time they’ve started paying creators less.

    It looks like they’ve really started abusing their market position in the last few years: more income and less expenditure. And it’s probably no coincidence that there are no financial figures for youtube alone.

      • Wispy2891@lemmy.worldEnglish
        15·
        7 hours ago

        AWS is incredibly expensive, if you’re hosting something like GitHub or Netflix on them instead of just owning the servers, you’re incredibly dumb

        • GenosseFlosse@feddit.orgEnglish
          41·
          5 hours ago

          Ok, what are the alternatives? A fully kitted out server rack, switches, redundancy, CPUs, multiple drives, backup storage or tapes, backup batteries, own power supply, software and licenses can cost as much as a new mid sized car? Asking for a friend…

          • Trainguyrom@reddthat.comEnglish
            6·
            4 hours ago

            At the scale of one of the top websites by daily active users, owning your own infrastructure is absolutely cheaper than just throwing it on AWS. At a more realistic smaller scale where you might exceed the bandwidth available for your own hardware, there’s also the option of a hybrid setup where your content is mainly hosted on hardware that you control and then it automatically scales out to AWS or similar when demand spikes.

            There’s really tons of ways to make web apps and server infrastructure cheaper than just renting it from a cloud provider, but many orgs lack the vision and drive to do so and just fork money over to [insert hyperscaler here] and watch their app go down when that hyperscaler goes down. I really question this mentality especially when the same organization has constant discussions about not liking how large their cloud provider bills are

      • RunawayFixer@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        6 hours ago

        I found an estimate of annual expenditures of 3.25 billion, without content payouts, but with engineering/legal/moderation costs. As 2024 revenue I found back 36 billion from advertising & 14.5 billion from subscriptions. Forbes had an article where Google claimed to have paid out $70bn in 2021-2023 to content creators, this number probably includes subscriptions. In those 3 years youtube had an ad revenue of 89.5 billion, but I have no number for subscriptions. These are all very opaque numbers. Based on these opaque numbers, I’d guesstimate youtube’s profit margin at 42%, which I find excessive.

        $36bn ad revenue + $14.5bn subscriptions: https://www.businessofapps.com/data/youtube-statistics/

        $3.25bn annual expenditures: https://www.clrn.org/how-much-does-youtube-cost-to-run/

        $70bn payed out to creators from 2021 to 2023: https://www.forbes.com.au/news/innovation/youtube-70-billion-creator-payments/

        Edit, how I got to my guesstimate of 42%:
        36bn ad revenue in 2024. An average of 30bn ad revenue in the 3 years prior. Estimation for the subscription income in those 3 years: 30/36 x 14.5 x 3=36 billion. 73bn expenditures & 126bn income = 53bn profit. 53/126 = 42%.

    • Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io
      301·
      11 hours ago

      Hope not, that would be a crushing blow! Since I generally boycott YT, I checked out Zara Dar’s What is a Neural Network. It’s a good overview, and well presented. Ah, a look there’s a part 2. It would be great if she could hit 1M views on ProhNub, as a result of this post. Only 207K over the past year, with 2K updoots.