Charlie bit my finger, now pay me!

Recode Daily

Recode

Society & Culture, Science, Technology

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Google disclosed how much money YouTube makes in ads for the first time. How are its content creators feeling? Featuring @pkafka @loudmouthjulia Links YouTube makes $15 billion a year from ads — and pays more than half of that to video makers Creators finally know how much money YouTube makes, and they want more of it Host: Arielle Duhaime-Ross (@adrs), host and lead reporter of Reset About Recode by Vox: Recode by Vox helps you understand how tech is changing the world — and changing us. Follow Us: Newsletter: Recode Daily Twitter: @Recode Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Monday afternoon, it's 4 o'clock. In the old days, I would be at my desk and I would be watching the Google Earnings
0:14.4	release and getting ready for the Google Earnings call.
0:17.1	Peter Kafka is a senior correspondent at Recode.
0:20.2	I've stopped doing that because those calls are boring.
0:22.8	Finally, Google, other revenue.
0:25.8	Android continues to thrive.
0:27.8	I'm proud to announce that over $80 billion
0:30.7	They're even boring for me and it's my job to pay attention to them. So what I normally do is go, I'm going to ignore it. If something big happens, I'll find out later and I'll come back to it. Sure enough, I end my meeting that I'm having at five o'clock, go to Twitter, and all the other reporters
0:45.2	who are covering, oh shit, YouTube.
0:47.7	According to YouTube, the site generated more than $15 billion in ad revenue last year alone. It's the first time YouTube has
0:54.5	revealed figures from ads. Today on the show, the business of YouTube. What
1:00.3	15 billion dollars means in light of YouTube's history
1:04.1	and what that number signals for the future of the platform
1:07.1	and youtubers everywhere.
1:09.3	I'm Ariel Jem Ross. This is reset. So what exactly was the number that they released on Monday?
1:21.0	15 billion dollars last year in ad revenue. on
1:24.0	about another three billion in revenue
1:26.0	and about another three billion in revenue from things that aren't really ad supported
1:28.0	that's selling subscriptions to YouTube TV
1:30.0	and they also have an ad-free version of YouTube and a music service.
1:34.0	So really it's an 18 billion dollar company.
1:37.0	They finally for the first time ever told us how big YouTube is.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Recode, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Recode and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.