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Clarification: YouTube's 2019 Ad Revs

by Wayne Friedman , Staff Writer, February 6, 2020

In the TV Watch column, “YouTube Rakes In $15 Billion In Advertising” (Feb. 6), YouTube’s 2019 advertising revenue was $15 billion in worldwide sales, according to Google’s recent quarterly earnings release. However, one August estimate from Statista shows that, for U.S. advertising alone, YouTube’s 2019 U.S. total ad revenue to be $5.47 billion.

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Wayne Friedman is West Coast Editor of MediaPost. You can reach Wayne at wayne@mediapost.com.