Japanese YouTube channel publishing psychology and trivia videos, earning roughly JPY 560K (about $3.7K) a month in ad revenue. Sold for JPY 4.8M (about $32K) on Rakko M&A, roughly 8.6 months of revenue.
Priced against revenue rather than profit, Japanese Psychology YouTube Channel sold at 0.7× annual revenue, below the 2.3× median across the 249 deals with a disclosed revenue multiple. Revenue multiples run higher than profit multiples because they ignore the cost of running the business, so they are only comparable between businesses with similar margins.
The $32,000 sale price puts it in the upper half of the 570 deals with a disclosed price here, where the median is $20,000. Most indie acquisitions cluster well under the headline numbers founders read about, which is exactly why a real distribution is more useful than an average.
This database tracks 215 Content/Media exits, and the ones that disclosed a price sold at a median of $25,100. Category matters more than founders expect: buyers apply different discount rates to a content business, a mobile app and a B2B tool even at identical revenue.
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