• Jose@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Youtube doesn’t have real competition because hosting video is much more expensive than text. That’s why Google doesn’t make individual reports about YouTube, it’s most likely not profitable.

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      1 year ago

      It’s still wild to me twitch saves full VODs but doesn’t allow strangers to cut/upload videos to compete with YouTube

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        1 year ago

        It hasn’t been profitable for a long time. Its only recently that it became profitable

        Edit: I actually couldn’t find anything about it’s profability and most sources say it’s not really profitable.