Dear #fediverse hypothetically what do we do if the alphabet company fucks up the #youtube #ad revenue business? How likely it is that the current ad industry collapses?
YouTube only works because of its scale, providing the infrastructure for a service like this costs billions a year. Hardware and power cost is not going down as all the economists wanted to believe like it is a law, while the rate of uploaded videos, their size and watch time (cost) still grows rapidly.
The general profit margins in imperialist countries are so low, how long can the AD industry increase the sales true ADs?
@wackJackle you are also into political economy as it seems, do I miss something here?
Is it just me that thinks the current economical situation could impact this to a level where the ad industry and all the related services and creators that only exist because of the sales the AD industry generates could fall into a deep crisis soon?
Iโm not necessarily saying that the business model will completely collapse but YouTube seems to struggle with this exact question a lot and tries to increase ad revenue with many desperate attempts, even destroying core functionality of the service slowly while cost of operation is not at all going down as expected.
What do we do if this collapses, there is so much trash on these servers for sure but also so much culture and human history that might gets lost in a market crash. I'm not trying to fear monger and I'm not in the clear myself but try to understand the economical situation around this so we can find solutions tougher.
At the end #alphabet needs our labour (building and programming computers and parts as well as creating content) to keep this going and if our labour is to cheap to consume more but to high for them to be able invest more in living capital they are a bit screwed.
https://abc.xyz/investor/news/news-details/2025/Alphabet-Announces-Third-Quarter-2025-Results-2025-mIRgD3AI4A/default.aspx
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