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> Imagine telling someone 15 years ago that YouTube was going to turn into the biggest entertainment entity ever.

Disney holds that crown. There's no likely scenario where YouTube by itself will surpass Disney, especially given how well Disney+ has performed.

Netflix is also a lot more valuable than YouTube and far larger in terms of sales.



Disney's market cap is about $320B, and Netflix at about $280B. It isn't unreasonable to expect that YouTube would be valued at at least that if it were valued independently (Alphabet overall is $1.9T - YouTube as 15% of that value seems reasonable).

YouTube seems to be on track to overtaking Netflix this year in terms of revenue as well, if it hasn't already. [0]

[0] https://www.marketwatch.com/story/with-skyrocketing-sales-yo...


If you measure by market cap perhaps, but if measured by time watched YT probably comes up on top (but that's just guess)


People are on YT literally all day long, for both long and short content. Not true for the other stuff you mentioned.


YouTube is bigger than Disney and Netflix combined.




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