Comment by londons_explore
3 years ago
But would the channel owner be happy to enable download options if $0.09 per GB downloaded was subtracted from their ad revenue?
3 years ago
But would the channel owner be happy to enable download options if $0.09 per GB downloaded was subtracted from their ad revenue?
If you cite a price that high for bulk data then if you get an answer of "no" it won't prove anything. Try asking about a competitive price.
For ballpark numbers, youtube dedicates 1200kbps to 1080p videos in VP9. Let's say we have a 10 minute video with an RPM of $3.
We can arrange a CDN to deliver files at $0.005 per GB without even putting effort into it. And that's at a super low scale. The price drops a lot from there as things get bigger. So I'll use that number, and note that it's being generous to google.
So that's 0.3 cents of revenue per watch, which is 90MB of data that would cost .045 cents to deliver.
One view would pay for about 7 downloads. And how many downloads are we likely to see? Probably under 10% of viewers.
I'd turn that option on.