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If you start up a website that it going to be incredibly popular, how do you make enough money to keep expanding the site as people join?
In other words, is there some type of mathematical formula that can be used? Facebook probably sold ads as soon as they started their site, but YouTube waited years (I think) before they started running ads, and there's no advertising already invented that can keep up with the number of hours of video that is uploaded every hour on to YouTube.
I realize that Google bought YouTube, but eventually YouTube is going to lose so much money that even Google is going to have to get rid of it. Google would have to start their own country and print their own currency to be able to afford to endlessly keep YouTube.
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- Anonymous7 months ago
Other than ads, offering a premium option or a donation option are other ways to get funding for server costs.
A forum I use frequently has a donation goal at the top of the site, once the goal has been reached then that would pay for the server for that month. Anything after that is a bonus for the operator and admins.
You are correct that Google are operating YouTube at a loss, however Google are making lots of money through their other services so taking the hit from YouTube isn’t making any dent in their profits. Something would have to majorly go wrong for Google to decide to drop YouTube because it’s costing them too much money.