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Even worse for Facebook, it's nearly all foreign people. There's just very little money to be made on the web outside of the U.S. Most other countries are either too poor or too small.


Back to Hulu vs. Youtube, I wonder how much of this is due to the fact that you can't get to Hulu outside the US.


That's true, I really can't blame them for doing that. Bandwidth might cost more than you can make in terms of CPM in most of the world.


I don't think they did it on purpose, probably had to do with licensing. But it was probably serendipitous.


Exactly. There are definitely not 800,000 Europeans, and the standard of living in the EU is really bad. I, for one, live in a cardboard box.

American entrepreneurs should keep away from this market! THERE IS NO MONEY TO BE HAD HERE.


The standard of living in much of the EU is pretty bad, and in the rest there generally aren't many people. There may be 800 million total, but only a small subset of them are marketable.

The U.S. has almost as much GDP as the entire EU, while having <40% of the population which, most importantly, means a lot more discretionary income.

I hope you didn't take my statements as jingoistic, it's just a well-known fact that U.S. users monetize much better than the rest of the world in general.




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