The Google video platform YouTube, the largest and most important video platform on the Web, as the number of users of the site to a billion users active each month, this means that the site generates a lot of money on Google, but it seems not entirely, where the press sources indicated that YouTube faces big problems on its financial performance.
The Wall Street Journal pointed out that although the number of users of the platform YouTube has reached one billion active users per month and 300 hours of video is uploaded every minute to YouTube faces real problems, and although Google does not publish financial results of its site YouTube but the paper points out that the site does not bring big profits but, on the contrary it will stroke mainly financial.
The newspaper noted that YouTube make $ 4 billion annually and it is estimated that 6 percent of Google revenues, but the majority of this amount will be used in the operating costs of the service, and the reason for this is that Google had difficulty selling advertising space on the site due to the majority of users access to YouTube via third locations such as social networking sites (Facebook, Twitter ...) and therefore lack direct views.
Although YouTube has become the main alternative for TV channels, although the majority of actors in all sectors preferences as a platform to showcase new video, but that did not prevent the site is exposed to fierce competition from a number of websites and Facebook as well as on the bet video technology and explains the resolution YouTube launch a paid position.