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Chang: Analysts Value Standalone YouTube at $500B, YouTube TV Leading Cable
“Today you have analysts saying if you pulled YouTube out of Google, it would be worth half a trillion dollars, which is almost double where Netflix is. It's on track, YouTube TV, to be the largest cable provider in the United States.”
Gilbert: Netflix, YouTube, and Disney Generate Hollywood's Major Profits
“If you just do the very simple exercise of looking who generates profits in the movie TV Hollywood landscape right now, it is Netflix, YouTube, and Disney generating the large profit streams.”
YouTube Remains the World's Second-Largest Search Engine
“Pretty quickly, YouTube became and still is, Google talks about this all the time, the second largest search engine on earth behind Google.”
YouTube Generates Over $50 Billion in Total Annual Revenue Today
“On top of the thirty-six billion in advertising revenue, Google reported that if you include subscription revenue, so this is things like YouTube Premium, YouTube Music, NFL Sunday Ticket, They're now doing over fifty billion in revenue.”
YouTube Lost Roughly $1 Billion Annually on $30 Million in Early Revenue
“So after the acquisition, he said it was doing about thirty million in revenue. So they did have revenue. I believe, just to foreshadow our next chapter, that was in the form of programmatic advertising that was on the DoubleClick ad exchange that they were us…”
Chang: YouTube Paid Creators $70B Over 3 Years, Surpassing Netflix Content Spend
“I think seventy billion dollars to creators over the last three years, which again is more than Netflix spends on content.”
Google Brain Trained a 9-Layer Neural Network Using 16,000 CPUs
“What they did was they trained a large nine-layer neural network to recognize cats from unlabeled frames of YouTube videos using 16,000 CPU cores on a thousand different machines.”
'Lazy Sunday' SNL Skit Increased Early YouTube Traffic by 83%
“And in fact, when users started uploading Lazy Sunday, the Lonely Island skit from Saturday Night Live, To YouTube. This is in that brief phase where YouTube was an ascendant startup and not yet part of Google. That one skit increased YouTube traffic by 83%.”
The Original iPhone Relied on Built-In Google Maps and YouTube Apps
“There are two apps that launch in the very first version of the iPhone. Remember, it didn't have an app store. It was not open to third-party developers. There is a YouTube app and a Maps app, both of which are Google services. Now, the apps are written by App…”
Gilbert: YouTube signed a media rights deal with IPL in 2010
“In 2010, YouTube did a media rights deal with the IPL.”
Rosenthal: India is YouTube's largest country by user base
“India is YouTube's largest country by user base.”
Rosenthal: YouTube Pays 55% on Long-Form and 45% on Shorts to Creators
“Google does not report today, but here is what is unique about YouTube versus every other platform is they pay out 55% of revenue on long form and 45% on shorts directly to creators.”
Gilbert: Acquired's Porsche Episode Reached 400K YouTube Views
“We put up this episode with Doug, and it's gotten 400,000 views, and is adding another 6000 a day, which in big YouTuber land doesn't sound like much, but for us, It's multiple orders of magnitude over anything else we've ever done on the platform.”
DeMuro: YouTube channel is approaching two billion total views
“People can make fun of me and they do all the, all they want to, but like I'm closing in on two billion views.”
Roelof Botha experienced a prolonged dry spell after early YouTube success
“He took over for Leone, right? And one of his very first investments was YouTube. So right out the gate, he's crushing it. But then he hit a dry spell, and it was really hard on him, and it was hard on the partnership, and he talks about it.”