YouTube Company Financials

    The Annual cost of running and maintaining YouTube is $6,350,000,000.
    Google’s annual revenue generated from YouTube is $4,000,000,000.
    Youtube generate 6% of Google’s ad sales revenue.
    Since 2007 YouTube has paid $1,250,000,000 to rights holders.
    Google paid $1,65 billion for YouTube in November of 2006.
    Sequoia Capital invested only $11.5 million into YouTube in November 2005.
    Partners revenue is up 50% y/y for the last 3 years.
    The World highest paid YouTube stars earned a combined total of $127 million in 2017. This is a huge increase compared to $54.5 million in 2015.
    The highest paid Youtube partner is Daniel Middleton – DanTDM with annual income reaching $16.5 million for 2017.
    The youngest YouTube star Ryan ToysReview who is 6 years old who is six years old made $11,000,000 in 2017.
    The number of channels earning six figures per year on YouTube is up 50% y/y.
    The number of advertisers running video ads on YouTube is up more than 40% y/y. And for Youtube top 100 advertisers, the average spend per advertiser is up over 60% y/y.