[HN Gopher] 2020 Q4 Alphabet Earnings Release [pdf]
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2020 Q4 Alphabet Earnings Release [pdf]
Author : lawrenceyan
Score : 54 points
Date : 2021-02-02 21:25 UTC (1 hours ago)
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| gundmc wrote:
| I fear this will only encourage the frankly absurd number of ads
| that have been on Youtube videos lately.
| mav3rick wrote:
| You can also get an ad free experience for about 3 dollars a
| month.
| mattlondon wrote:
| In the UK it is PS12 a month for YouTube premium which is
| more like 15USD. Feels quite expensive when Netflix is about
| half of that.
| deadmutex wrote:
| How much is Spotify? YT Premium ~= YT Music + Ad free
| videos + YT Originals.
| ra7 wrote:
| Isn't YouTube Premium $11.99 per month?
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| sniperjzp wrote:
| You can see this kind of comment in every YouTube related
| posts, please, there's no free lunch, either pay for the
| subscription or use tools to block the ads.
| gundmc wrote:
| I have no problem with some ads. I have a problem with
| midroll ads every 5 minutes and ads >> 2 minutes long when
| I've stepped away from my device and can't skip.
| actuator wrote:
| Why not just pay for the service?
| justapassenger wrote:
| YouTube premium is available in tons of countries and they
| have family plans. I've been using it for years with my
| wife and it's best money ever spent.
|
| Just pay for the content. You aren't forced to watch those
| ads.
| seaman1921 wrote:
| what makes you think you are entitled to using youtube for
| free? The ad-free experience in Premium is great.
|
| And don't forget they are paying a huge sum to the content
| creators as well - it is a delicate balance.
| FartyMcFarter wrote:
| I find it annoying that lots of content creators still put
| sponsored ads in their videos which are shown to me as a
| premium user. IMO those should be skipped automatically when
| Premium, but alas...
| ZephyrBlu wrote:
| I'm not why you expect YouTube to skip sponsorships which
| are directly integrated into the video...
|
| Also, content creators do it because brand deals are
| generally a big chunk of change.
| polote wrote:
| Youtube is almost unusable without uBlock Origin or you have to
| call it Adstube.
| silexia wrote:
| Pay the $10 a month or whatever for Youtube premium and never
| see an ad again.
| vkou wrote:
| It's a decent deal if you also want the YT Music (Formerly
| Google Play Music) library, not a great deal otherwise.
|
| (I do want the music library, so I've been a subscriber for
| a very long time.)
| actuator wrote:
| Personally I use YouTube way more than Netflix so to me
| just ad free YouTube also seems worth paying for.
|
| I haven't tried YT music yet as I am happy with Spotify.
| jansan wrote:
| IMO they show you those annoying ads (two in a row recently) to
| make you subscribe to the ad-free premium service.
| PieUser wrote:
| So Google Cloud is still losing money. Anyone know if Azure is
| profitable?
| threatripper wrote:
| Are the cloud losses all real or is it an accounting artifact
| due to internally providing services without charging for them
| in full?
| mike_d wrote:
| GCP runs on Google, but Google doesn't run on GCP.
| gundmc wrote:
| At this stage of cloud, all that's really important is revenue
| growth. GCP is only a quarter of the size of Azure and AWS -
| they need to gain market share regardless of how much
| investment it requires in the short term.
| seshagiric wrote:
| It looks like Google Cloud made $13Bn and had expenses/losses
| of $5Bn i.e., net positive $8Bn. Why do you think it's losing
| money?
| dantheman wrote:
| Google lost $5 billion, that's not it's expenses.
| seshagiric wrote:
| Ah got it, $5Bn is the 'operating income' so although they
| made $13Bn, they ended up spending $18Bn.
| ksec wrote:
| Google _still_ growing revenue at 23% YoY?
|
| Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and Google. All of them beat
| even the most optimistic estimates.
|
| Will have to dig into whether the cost of being Apple's default
| search engine has risen. Generally speaking it should $10 / user
| / year. Apple just reported another 200M increase in Active
| Devices. There _should_ be some hint, or may be it will have to
| wait until next contract negotiation.
| actuator wrote:
| I personally think Google can continue at this pace as GCP
| value is still not unlocked completely. I can't comment on the
| other services but in my previous job we did shift a lot of
| compute instances stuff to GCP from AWS because of ease of
| automation. If other services catch up to AWS and with unique
| offerings like Spanner, a lot of room for them to grow.
|
| Though it is quite scary how these companies are so big and yet
| growing so fast.
| lawrenceyan wrote:
| Live Earnings Call: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O45kGgcbR8s
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