Yesterday, I wrote about Google’s CEO presenting on the company’s plans to proceed with selling $80 billion in new shares. I’m a huge user of YouTube and its premium subscription, and it’s one of the apps I get the most value from every month. I get a great return on my $15.99. I dug into the detailed presentation, and one stat really stuck with me.

The CEO said that YouTube did $60 billion in revenue last year (page 11). I knew that YouTube is a big business, but that’s an enormous business. That number stopped me in my tracks. It got me thinking. YouTube is big enough to be a large, likely $100 billion plus, market-cap company on its own.

YouTube is a giant inside another giant. Interesting data point.