How much money does it cost to run youtube?

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asked Aug 15, 2017 in Youtube by Rexer (1,540 points)
How much does it cost to run youtube? How much does it cost for all the bandwidth used and and all the storage severs to host and serve all those youtube videos?

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answered Aug 16, 2017 by Jodie (35,100 points)
Running youtube cost's around 700 million dollars per year. And I don't think they're profiting very much from youtube.

I believe I read somewhere awhile back that youtube was only making 240 million in revenue from the advertisement's.

Not sure how much youtube red subscriptions are bringing in.

Youtube operates it's own data centers all around the world and has several copies of the same videos on their web servers to serve the video to you from their closest data center to help with the speed of delivery of the video.

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