[sofixa]

> Google is making money hosting these videos

This isn't certain. Google do not break out Youtube revenues nor costs. Hosting this amount of videos, globally, redundantly, the vast majority of which are basically never watched, cannot be cheap.

It's entirely plausible that Google's wider benefit from Youtube (such as training video generation algorithms and better behaviour tracking for better targeted ads across the internet) are enough to compensate for Youtube in particular losing money.

[1024core]

> Google do not break out Youtube revenues nor costs.

Google does break out Youtube revenue.

Latest 10-K: https://abc.xyz/assets/77/51/9841ad5c4fbe85b4440c47a4df8d/go...

See page 10, for youtube Ads revenue.

[sofixa]

My bad, I thought it's the two. But they don't break out costs, so in reality we don't know if YouTube is profitable or not.