From: David L. Jones on
mpm wrote:
> Does it bother anyone else that Twitter can get $55M VC Funding (USD)
> for a business model that even Twitter's own exec's admit they have no
> idea how to monitize?
>
> Twitter, Facebook, YouTube...

Google make money from Youtube indirectly through advertising on the Partner
channel videos.
I certainly make money from it as a partner!
2009 figures here are circa $350M a year:
http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2008/0616/050.html

Don't know if that pays for the server space and bandwidth or whatever, if
they account for it seperately from other Adsense revenue, or whether or not
it all just goes into the Google Pot of Gold.

Dave.

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