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Google’s YouTube likely as profitable as Netflix

Google’s (GOOGL) YouTube business is probably at least as profitable as Netflix (NFLX), according to a report Monday from Generator Research. The report estimates YouTube generated about $5 billion in ad revenue in 2013, or 9% of Google’s total sales for the year. The popular online video site attracts more than 1 billion unique visitors each month, or half of all Internet users worldwide. YouTube’s revenue is rising because of three factors: growth in unique viewers, increase in the number of streaming ads served, and increase in the average cost of each ad, Generator analyst Andrew Sheehy said in a summary of the report. “When viewed on a P&L basis, we think that YouTube is a profitable business for Google: Not only does the company not have to pay content acquisition costs for the vast majority of its content, but our analysis is that the streaming costs are no…

ESPN Picks Cricket Over Soccer To Grow Outside U.S.

ESPN still pounds its chest about being No. 1 in U.S. sports coverage, even as News Corp.’s Twenty-First Century Fox and Comcast’s NBCUniversal take aim at its lead. But while remaining tops in the U.S., ESPN’s international efforts haven’t always been smooth. It aims to boost those efforts, even as other U.S. media companies — notably the online video streamer Netflix (NFLX) and content provider Discovery (DISCA) — eye overseas expansion. At its

Netflix might add Chelsea Handler talk show to lineup

Netflix might be looking to copy another move from the playbook of rival HBO if it picks up comedian Chelsea Handler’s talk show. The New York Post reported late Sunday that Netflix (NFLX) is close to a deal with the E! channel talk-show host to make a show for the streaming video service. The format of the new show is still to be decided, the Post said. Handler has said that she will leave the E! cable network as host of “Chelsea Lately” when her current contract expires at the end of the year. E! is owned by NBCUniversal, a unit of Comcast (CMCSA). Netflix followed HBO into original programming in February 2012 with the gangster comedy-drama “Lilyhammer.” It has since added shows such as “House of Cards,” “Hemlock Grove,” “Orange Is the New Black” and “Derek.” But it has yet to offer any series recorded live like HBO’s…