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2010 May Be the First Year YouTube Turns a Profit
eldavojohn writes "Analysts are saying that this year will be the first year YouTube turns a profit. From the New York Times article: 'In the last year, the video site has become a significant contributor to the family business at a time when Google, which makes more than 90 percent of its revenue from text search ads, is seeking a second act. Though Google does not report YouTube's earnings, it has hinted that it is hovering near profitability. Analysts say YouTube will bring in around $450 million in revenue this year and earn a profit. Revenue at YouTube has more than doubled each year for the last three years, according to the company.' Of course a little over a year ago we were being told that YouTube was losing around $1.65 million each day. Regardless, when you pay $1.65 billion for a business, you probably don't expect it to take three to four years before you start making your money back."
And if you save them, and dump the sound track with mplayer, you usually end up with a nice 128kbps MP3.
And they sell their data to spammers, unfortunately.
I registered some time back with an emusic@domain.com email address (I make a new alias for every website), and regularly get spam mailed to it. And I don't mean emusic advertisements, or even some sort of partner thing. It's viagra and xanax spam.
I only went as far as getting a trial account, and due to this will never go any further.
it has a linux version.
Yes, but it's only 32bit, and if you want to install it on a 64bit version, you will be shocked at how much 32bit crap it wants to drag into your nice clean 64bit system..... all for a crummy downloader. I passed at the opportunity to mess up my system more (Skype was bad enough but at least that is useful).
Take Nobody's Word For It.