How does YouTube make money?

Question

YouTube never advertise, accounts are free and can't actually be upgraded for money, etc.

I hear they use over 1 million dollars of bandwith (space) a day.

How do they afford it?!

Answer 1

Actually they DO advertise. Go to the main site, and look on the right of the page, you'll find an ad. They are being paid for ads.

Answer 2

Video Advertising will be a big fat ,

that's why Metacafe, Veoh, Dailymotion never stop to promote their video website.

But only few of them will survive, depend on which business plan they going to execute...

Answer 3

through advertisements and maybe through sponsors.  

Answer 4

I'm not sure if they are making any money right now - but I know they're trying to build a gigantic user base. With that user base, they can make loads of money.

Answer 5

wat the???????????? i thought they are advertisements and if they pay me 15 cents for every comment i would be richer then donald trump.    lollllllllll

Answer 6

YouTube certainly does advertise. Look on the right-hand side of the page. There are always advertisements. They don't show on *every* video view, but they're there.

Yes, they really do use that much bandwidth a day.

According to Google, ever since they acquired it in 2006, YouTube has yet to turn a profit.

They are trying to come up with a more subtle approach to advertising. It's a Google service, so they are trying to abandon the intrusive banner-on-every-page advertising model. They experimented with in-video advertising for a while — where they show an ad within a playing video — but it seems they quietly pulled the plug on that...

When it comes to sustainability, YouTube can't afford to run on it's own. Without Google pumping in heinous amounts of cash, it wouldn't survive.

Answer 7

Advertising, have you never noticed all those videos and banners ADVERTISING?!  they are everywhere - and the site has so many visitors that the advertising space is very epensive.

But i do agree, that can't be the only way surely?

Google must have bought it for a very good reason, several billion pounds wasn't it?