How does You-Tube make money?

[cannabis campbell]

You-tube has been on the news a lot now being the biggest video website on the internet making billions apparently, I can see how websites like eBay make money because of all the transactions going on every single day and people exchanging money and then eBay getting like 4% from each deal it all adds up.

But I dont see how you-tube or even other websites like google make money because you dont pay any money to join them or take up all that space for the video at all so how are they doing it??

cannabis campbell Reviewed by cannabis campbell on 09-25-2007. How does You-Tube make money? You-tube has been on the news a lot now being the biggest video website on the internet making billions apparently, I can see how websites like eBay make money because of all the transactions going on every single day and people exchanging money and then eBay getting like 4% from each deal it all adds up. But I dont see how you-tube or even other websites like google make money because you dont pay any money to join them or take up all that space for the video at all so how are they doing Rating: 5

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Companies pay for advertisement on youtube

[Blitzed]

^^ Its exactly how cannabis.com stays open.

[Rhymenocerus]

If a web site generates a lot of traffic they can make a lot of money through advertisements.

[smokerofweed420]

And google has made an absolute shit-ton of money with its google ads software. Instead of having to place specific ads on websites, any website with google ads gets advertisements put on its site based on words and phrases that appear there.

[KingOfMyWorld]

It helps that Google owns YouTube as well. Otherwise it all comes down to their advertisements and companies that pay them to use their service for their videos, a lot of record companies have deals with them and put up music videos and such. And there are said to be some companies that pay them to search and destroy their copywritten works but I doubt that one, the company could just say take it down or be sued.

And for the record by the time Ebay is through with you, they earn almost 15% because they charge 5% or so after the auction plus 3% for everything over 100 or something near that number and they also own PayPal which also gets a cut of every auction if you use their service. It's rediculous, I sold a Wii for 360 and walked away with around 300 after ebay, paypal and postal charges.

[cannabis campbell]

So thats all it is advertising? if they made so much money from that they would make so much money from charging for gold membership or something

[RhinoGrowUK]

would they only get money if people used the link and went ahead with whatever they are selling / offering. Or do they pay a set price for having the advertisment up on the website ?!?!

[GRASSMASTA]

A set price for the advertisement on their website. After all it's all about facetime on many websites, newspapers, and magazines.

[ubermoose]

According to dnScoop - Domain Name Value, History, Stats Tool and Forums, google is worth just under $1.5 billion.

To give some perspective, cannabis.com is worth $68,150

Btw, firefox + adblock = what adverts?