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That's over a billion dollars a month. If they're still operating at a loss with all that then it's their own incompetence at fault.
That depends on how they count family plans as well as the region of those subscribers (not every region has the same price).
You know that’s not pure profit, right? Besides their hardware, development and operational costs, which are substantial, they split that fee with creators.
Source: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6306276?hl=en#:~:text=Revenue%20from%20YouTube%20Premium%20membership,money%20from%20this%20revenue%20stream%3F
didn't ask
How public discourse works, brah.