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    overall ad spend which is $150
    billion per year

According to statistica it is $560B:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/236943/global-advertisin...

Then YouTube would be about 3% of it.

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Ah, I was only looking at the U.S. market.

The latest figure is $650 billion. Google has 25% of that huge pie. Rather frightening.

https://www.marketingdive.com/news/ad-spending-growth-will-a...

There is an interesting possibility that I haven't really seen written about with all of this consolidation and projections that companies will grow larger and larger as technology moves economies toward a winner-take-all model; And that is that when there is little competition in many sectors, there will be little incentive to spend on advertising.

I don't know what their ad spend is, but If AWS was the only player left, they sure wouldn't need to spend anything on advertising.

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