How Does YouTube Make Money? YouTube Business Model In A Nutshell
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2 min readAug 31, 2018
Founded in 2005 by former PayPal co-workers (Chad Hurley, Eric Skaggs, Jawed Karim, Martin Pauer, and Steve Chen) YouTube was acquired for almost $1.7 billion in 2006 by Google. We don’t know how much revenues it makes, although it might be a $15 billion per year, based on advertising and paid membership. YouTube is the most popular website on the planet, after Google.
- YouTube origin story
- YouTube start: It all began at the San Diego Zoo
- YouTube copyright issues and how it dealt with them
- Google acquisition of YouTube for $1.7 billion in less than two years
- Explosive growth: how YouTube got to over two billion views by 2010
- YouTube today
- How much money does YouTube make?
- Is advertising the right business model for YouTube?
- YouTube subscription-based business model
- What does YouTube premium comprise?
- What does YouTube Music comprise?
- What does YouTube Originals comprise?
- What does YouTube Kids comprise?
- What does YouTube Gaming comprise?
- YouTube mission: “Our mission is to give everyone a voice and show them the world”
- Summary and conclusion
