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Originally Posted by EdgeXXX
Maybe I'm tired and still trying to wake up or something, but that article makes absolutely zero sense. First it says " Meanwhile (YouTube's) bandwidth costs, which increase every time a visitor clicks on a video, may be approaching $1 million a month--much of which goes to provider Limelight Networks., then a little later in the article they say "Industry observers estimate that YouTube, which is streaming 40 million videos and 200 terabytes of data per day, may be paying between a tenth of a cent and half a cent per minute" (which comes out to around $2,628/yr).  WTF? Could those 2 figures be any further apart?
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The paragraph talks about sites typically paying one cent per minute of video streamed. They estimate that YouTube pays .1 - .5 cents per minute of video streamed.