TIL: Minitel was pulling in over $1b a year in the nineties

I knew Minitel was pervasive but had no idea that they were pulling in over $1b a year in online app revenue per year in the nineties.

-       https://www.makegameswith.us/gamernews/276/the-first-app-store

YouTube video payments

Reading this article now - http://qz.com/67991/you-didnt-make-the-harlem-shake-go-viral-corporations-did/

So can someone explain to me, if the copyright holder gets 50% of the $6cpm and the video uploader also gets $3cpm…..then is YouTube actually making any money from a cost for content of $6cpm +server hardware+internet bandwidth +engineering salaries OR are these payment actually CPA and not CPM?

Are companies really paying >$6CPM for those tiny banner ads on YouTube and when was the last time you clicked on one OR didn’t fast forward through an interstitial?

Thoughts?