An nameless reader writes "The average visitor to YouTube is costing Google between one and two dollars, by the numbers to new probe that shows Google losing up to $1.65 million per day on the video site. More than two years after Google hiv YouTube, income from premium offers and other revenue generators don't offset YouTube's expenses of content acquisition, bandwidth, and storage. YouTube is routed to serve 75 billion video streams to 375 million unique visitors in 2009, costing Google up to $2,064,054 a day, or $753 million annualized. Revenue projections for YouTube fall between $90 million and $240 million." Maybe this is in part because, as Al writes, "Researchers from HP Palo Alto studied videos uploaded to YouTube and found that renown has little to do with quality or persistence."

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