Ask HN: Video streaming is expensive yet YouTube "seems" to do it for free. How?
Can anyone help me understand the economics of video streaming platforms?Streaming, encoding, and storage demands enormous costs -- especially at scale (e.g., on average each 4k video with close to 1 million views).
Yet YouTube seems to charge no money for it.I know advertisements are a thing for YT, but is it enough?If tomorrow I want to start a platform that is supported with Advert revenues, I know I will likely fail. However, maybe at YT scale (or more specifically Google Advert scale) the e...
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