[mhudson125]

I'd love to see where you got the idea that YouTube doesn't make any money. As far as I know they don't break out YouTube revenue in any of their filings.

In fact, in each of the filings for 2016 & 2017 the revenue they report is an amalgamation of products that consist of search, ads, commerce, maps, youtube, google cloud, android, chrome, and google play[1][2].

[1] => https://abc.xyz/investor/pdf/20170331_alphabet_10Q.pdf pg 30

[2] => https://abc.xyz/investor/pdf/20160331_alphabet_10Q.pdf pg 28

[supreme_sublime]

These are fairly old, but I've gathered they don't make a profit based on articles like the following.

http://fortune.com/2016/10/18/youtube-profits-ceo-susan-wojc...

https://outline.com/7PG22L

[mhudson125]

Unfortunately, neither of the links show a concrete indication of where YouTube profitability is right now.

It was approximated to be break even two years ago but doesn't have a growth factor as part of the number that is reported in the article, which is a key metric for determining revenue in the future. Revenue aside, profitability is extremely difficult to calculate as we don't know what the costs are as YouTube grows.

You would have made a better case here, but it's still far too old for any relevance in this discussion: https://www.wsj.com/articles/viewers-dont-add-up-to-profit-f...

[supreme_sublime]

That was the second link I posted. Either way, YouTube's profitability has little bearing on the second part of my comment. Unfortunately people decided to ignore that and focus on YouTube's profitability for some reason.