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Has YouTube won? Don’t they lose money?

It seems like Netflix has won. Hulu is catching up. YouTube is working hard on a distant third place.

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According to YouTube they now have 1.8 billion logged in users each month. So I guess you could call that winning.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/3/17317274/youtube-1-8-billi...

As for their profitability:

https://medium.com/@intenex/where-are-you-getting-hard-data-...

Just speaking personally, I probably watch at least an hour of YouTube video daily, but I'm feeling less inclined to spend time on YouTube lately, due to all the ads and creator community hijinks. I've even considered hosting my own videos at sites like IA from now on. So while the big numbers look good, I'm personally more concerned about YouTube's future.

I don't know how much youtube is losing but it seems it's the cultural cornerstone for online video.

A snail crawling, slithering, along the edge of a straight razor.

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