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by PeterisP 2439 days ago
I read the parent post as asserting that the value of ads placed on youtube is not as large as the incremental value to non-youtube ads (which is a much, much bigger market) from better targeting enabled by youtube data.

I don't know if that's true - youtube ad revenue seems to be ~10% of total google ad revenue; so for that to be true youtube data would have to provide 10% revenue boost to existing ads over all the other (many!) data sources that google has, and I'm not certain if it's realistic.