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el 16-Apr-2008 |
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 Waiting for the explosion of YouTube video revenue to spark the next wave of torrid Google (GOOG) growth? Better curl up like Rip Van Winkle. Judging by the miniscule commissions Google just paid out to its production partners, you'll be waiting for years.
As SAI's Vas Sridharan reports, YouTube proudly reported that it has shelled out...ONE MIIIIIILLLLLLLION DOLLARS...to producer partners in the past four months. The producer of one video, the 2-million-view smash hit "Break a Leg," got a check for $1,600--which equates to a net $0.80 CPM.
As we recall, Google is pretty generous with its producer partners, giving them about 75% of the gross revenue. If so, this means Google grossed about $2,133 on those 2 million views, or a CPM of about $1. Of this, Google got to keep about $500--or $0.25 per thousand.
According to Comscore, YouTube streamed about 3.4 billion videos in January. If YouTube generated a net $0.25 CPM on all of them, it would log about $850,000 of revenue per month, or a run-rate of about $10 million a year. Yes, YouTube doesn't have to pay production partners on all videos. But a vast percentage of YouTube videos are also completely unmonetizable.
According to New Tee Vee, JP Morgan Stearns analyst Bob Peck estimates that YouTube will clock about $100 million of revenue this year, of which only $20 million will come from overlay ads (presumably the kind that YouTube is paying a split to production partners on). The rest will come from display advertising on the video pages.
Based on paltry $1 million YouTube has paid to production partners in the past four months, this revenue estimate looks pretty accurate. Unfortunately, on a base of $20 billion of search and AdSense revenue, it's also immaterial.
See Also: Mary Meeker's Wacky YouTube Math
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