[bryanlarsen]

"has massively overpaid"

Certainly seems like it, but I was spectacularly wrong when I said that about Google's purchase of YouTube and about Facebook's purchase of Instagram, so I've learned to stop saying that.

[imh]

Youtube is the weirdest one for me. I still don't get it, even though I'm already clearly wrong. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[bryanlarsen]

Youtube is responsible for ~10% of Google's revenue, according to analysts.

[petra]

any idea about profitability ?

[kinkora]

what do you not get specificaly?

I was in the same boat until I talked to someone working directly with youtube and that conversation cleared a lot of my questions. Allow me to do the same for you. :)