Analysis of economic and productivity losses caused by Youtube ads in <world>.
<S>OMFG!!! YOUTUBE IS COSTING THE WORLD *750B EUR* PER YEAR. </S>
How many hours of productivity are lost to Youtube ads?
2.49 billion active users, average seems to be 29 hours per month, reddit reports 4 ads/10 minutes lately - so 24 ads/hour, 5 seconds each (even though that went up!), so 2mins of ads/hour or 1 hour of ads per month, 12 hours of ads per year!
12 hours * 25 Eur/hour * 2.5B = 750B Eur
(probably made some mistakes)
Also, this article is ridiculous - like assuming all 400M European internet users are "productive" at 25Eur/h (30% are probably < 15 or > 65), people clicking 1200 banners per year because they visit 100 sites/month (12*100, right?!) and so on.