Netflix has so many competitors. But google/youtube successfully navigated/ killed competitors except TikTok. Do you think it’s super hard to create youtube at scale or something else?
TikTok mostly isn’t competing with YouTube. TikTok is in the “social media” space which means it’s main competitors are Instagram, Facebook and Snapchat.
YouTube shorts
It definitely competes
YouTube benefits from the same sort of True Network Effect that Google Search benefits from. It is essentially a monopoly and will always be. They used one Monopoly to build another which is hilarious when you think about it.
The other services just pay for content which is more straightforward than getting people to make content for free
YouTubers get paid too lol
I know but it’s free at first and you might get money later vs guaranteed money on Netflix