YouTube raked in over $60 billion in revenue last year, says Alphabet, between its seemingly-endless parade of adverts and its Premium subscription service

Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai has handily summarised the latter's Q4 results in a blog post this week, and right near the top is an interesting figure: YouTube's annual revenues surpassed $60 billion across ads and subscriptions.

Looking deeper into the fiscal results themselves, YouTube ads brought in $11.38 billion in the last quarter, compared to $10.47 billion in last year's report. Anecdotally, I can well believe this figure, as YouTube's ad frequency ramped up at such a rate...