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    YouTube pulled in a staggering $40.4 billion in ad revenue, which is more than Disney, NBC, Paramount, and Warner Bros. Discovery’s (WBD’s) combined ad revenue
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    YouTube pulled in a staggering $40.4 billion in ad revenue, which is more than Disney, NBC, Paramount, and Warner Bros. Discovery’s (WBD’s) combined ad revenue

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    1. MysteriousDatabase68 on

      And they will run ads those outlets won’t.

      If you’ve got a scam, an mlm, or a bottle of snake oil, you can sell it on Youtube.

    5. MookieMookdogg on

      get $ from ad companies, get $ from u who don’t want to see ads. win win for $GOOG

    7. neonTULIPS on

      It helps that you run them within Google ads, which is a necessary platform anyway for most businesses. If you could just flip on ads for those others within Google ads, I’m sure they’d increase too.

    9. HarrowingAbyss on

      But they will continue to add more intrusive ads because it’s never enough money.

    10. Havnaz on

      And it still isn’t enough money for them. They are going to extend the length of ads that you can’t skip.

    12. Makabajones on

      amazing what happens when people upload nearly infinite content to your platform for free.

    14. thesagex on

      40.4 billion doesn’t mean anything until we can see other revenue streams and total expidentures

    15. Royal-Bumblebee4817 on

      Gee Brain, what are we going to do next quarter? More Pinky! More ads, longer ads..

    17. tjvs2001 on

      And made from peddling conspiracy theorists and far right filth directly into our kids minds. For billions of hours.

    21. waytomuchpressure on

      All paid for by the free loaders attention. They really don’t like when you tell them that they are the product

    23. Expensive_Shallot_78 on

      How high is even the conversion rate on these ads? I can’t believe how much companies soend on these ad networks

    25. Tomhyde098 on

      I wonder how much they either make or lose out on people like me that has YouTube Premium

    28. SuperGameTheory on

      Go ahead, industry. Continue to waste your money on ads. I live on ignoring them. Thanks for all the free stuff, suckers. *Brought to you by Carls Jr.*

    29. ProduceEmbarrassed97 on

      Well…obviously.

      I have one channel I watch, just one. And for a 17 minute video there was an ad break every 3 minutes. Which is why I only follow one channel.

    31. morbob on

      They ( Google )- paid $1.5 billion to the 2 inventors back in 2000 for YouTube.
      Talk about a good investment. Now worth $400-600 billion.

    33. Logical_Welder3467 on

      Remember business expert Mark Cuban hot take on Google buying YouTube

      https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-cuban-still-thinks-google-youtube-is-a-huge-mistake-2011-8

      “I said it was a huge mistake back then, and I still think it’s a huge mistake. Because on one hand, you say, ‘Wow, YouTube has got all these people that come to their site.’ But think about what’s really going on YouTube,” he told CBS.com’s What’s Trending.
      “All YouTube is, is Google subsidizing the bandwidth of every individual in the world.”

    39. uhf26 on

      And with their PrEmIuM pLaN at $18 a month, no wonder an ad blocker on their site is a much better alternative