Polls
Who is the pretty boy of affiliate networks?
- Jason Baker
CommissionJunction
(26%, 78 Votes) - Lee Griffin
TradeDoubler
(16%, 47 Votes) - James Little
AffiliateFuture
(14%, 41 Votes) - Darren Newmark
LinkShare
(12%, 35 Votes) - Doug:)
Sexy beast
(11%, 33 Votes) - Adam Ross
AffiliateWindow
(11%, 32 Votes) - Mark Walters
AfilliateWindow
(11%, 32 Votes) - Chris Mockford
Buy.at
(9%, 26 Votes) - Tyson Pearcey
Buy.at
(5%, 14 Votes) - Warwick Lambert
Buy.at
(4%, 11 Votes) - Clarke Duncan
PaidOnResults
(3%, 10 Votes) - Giles Parnell
AffiliateFuture
(-22%, 10 Votes)
Total Voters: 297
Loading ...- Jason Baker
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Like Youtube you can loose another million today – oh well
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
Some facts:
- one thousand gigabytes of data is transmitted by YouTube per second
- OR three hundred billion gigabytes on a monthly basis
- Estimations are that in 2007 the amount of bandwidth spent by YouTube was the equivalent of what the entire World Wide Web utilised in the year 2000.
- each single day the company spends close to one million dollars on bandwidth alone
- YouTube costs approximately three per cent of the operating costs of Google
- Estimates are these costs are US$300-500 million for last year, 2007.
- ten to twenty per cent of the videos on YouTube are of professional quality while the rest are made by amateurs
Youtube have to show a lot of banner ads to make that cash back, and who wants to have their ad next to a video of sex or something worse:
Doug enjoys youtube and clicks on no ads
Popularity: 1% [?]
Maybe they’re just waiting for the time when their bandwidth costs become negligible and they actually start to make a profit. Looking at how the cost of bandwidth has fallen in recent years they could see the tipping point coming sooner than they think.