--- title: YouTube Worth $70 billion for Google, Bank of America Analyst Says description: The video sharing site is worth big money, according to one analyst canonical: https://time.com/3898064/youtube-google-value/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-05-27T16:09:56.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:05:30.082Z article:section: Business og:title: Here's How Much Youtube Is Worth og:description: Viral videos are big money og:url: https://time.com/3898064/youtube-google-value/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9f056292642d6af0/6987ec2de53aba3e3e4db6e9/youtube1.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Google Holds Event For Creators At YouTube Tokyo Space og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Here's How Much Youtube Is Worth twitter:description: Viral videos are big money twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9f056292642d6af0/6987ec2de53aba3e3e4db6e9/youtube1.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Here's How Much Youtube Is Worth by [Ben Geier / Fortune](/author/fortune/) ## Ben Geier / Fortune May 27, 2015 4:09 PM CUT  An employee holding recording equipment walks past Google Inc.'s YouTube logo displayed at the company's YouTube Space studio in Tokyo, Japan, on March 30, 2013. An employee holding recording equipment walks past Google Inc.'s YouTube logo displayed at the company's YouTube Space studio in Tokyo, Japan, on March 30, 2013.Kiyoshi Ota—Bloomberg/Getty Images by [Ben Geier / Fortune](/author/fortune/) ## Ben Geier / Fortune May 27, 2015 4:09 PM CUT An analyst at Bank of America thinks your favorite place for cat videos is worth big money. Analyst Justin Post wrote a note this week saying that YouTube, the popular video streaming site bought by Google in 2006, is worth about $70 billion on its own. That’s a higher value than all but 66 of the companies listed on the S&P 500, according to [Bloomberg](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-05-27/a-bank-of-america-analysis-says-youtube-is-worth-more-than-85-percent-of-companies-in-the-s-p-500 "undefined"). Post also thinks that YouTube could still grow, with a valuation of up to $90 billion possible—which would leave only 55 S&P 500 companies beating it. The 2006 deal was for $1.65 billion. [_This article originally appeared on Fortune.com_](http://fortune.com/2015/05/27/youtube-google-value/ "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3898064/youtube-google-value/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3898064/youtube-google-value/"},"headline":"Here's How Much Youtube Is Worth","datePublished":"2015-05-27T16:09:56.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:05:30.082Z","description":"Viral videos are big money","url":"https://time.com/3898064/youtube-google-value/","keywords":["Tech","Web","pubdesk"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9f056292642d6af0/6987ec2de53aba3e3e4db6e9/youtube1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ben Geier / Fortune"}],"articleSection":"Business","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9f056292642d6af0/6987ec2de53aba3e3e4db6e9/youtube1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Google Holds Event For Creators At YouTube Tokyo Space","caption":"Google Holds Event For Creators At YouTube Tokyo Space","creditText":"Kiyoshi Ota—Bloomberg/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/business/","name":"Business"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-tech/","name":"Tech"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3898064/youtube-google-value/","name":"Here's How Much Youtube Is Worth"}}]}] ```