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spir-11194	Coromina, Oscar; Matamoros-Fernández, Ariadna; Rieder, Bernhard	FOLLOW THE MONEY: A LARGE-SCALE INVESTIGATION OF MONETIZATION AND OPTIMIZATION ON YOUTUBE	2020.0	4	.pdf	application/pdf	1261	67	45	Our method sheds light on YouTube’s economic ecology and opens the door to the possibility to classify YouTube channels according to their model of monetization and to analyze relationships between monetization, optimization, and topicality. YouTube’s business model - which generated $15B of revenues in 2019 (Statt, 2020) - relies on millions of channels uploading videos, pursuing views and subscribers, and increasingly professionalizing their production methods to become viable businesses themselves.	cache/spir-11194.pdf	txt/spir-11194.txt