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We basically have two super huge media companies now: Comcast and Disney they just keep buying up properties.

• adventured 11y ago
  Viacom, Comcast, Disney, CBS, Netflix, Amazon, Apple, Twenty-First Century Fox, Google, Verizon, AT&T. Those are all massive media companies, we very clearly do not just have two. Apple is by far the world's largest media company. Amazon is a $300 billion, hyper aggressive corporation that is doing everything it can to become a big player in content. Amazon even has its own infrastructure play in AWS, which is responsible for delivering all of that content (ten years from now, will people be arguing AWS is a utility as it becomes as big as a major cable company?). Netflix is a fast growing $40 billion corporation. AT&T and Verizon are as much media companies these days as Comcast is. Verizon purchased AOL and would seemingly like to buy Yahoo. Both AT&T and Verizon are as big and powerful as Comcast is. Even Google continues to push further into that field. After all, how are they not partially a media / content company, given they control the world's most used app store (reaching a billion people), and have competing products in content delivery (video, music). Google even has a direct competitor to Comcast in Google Fiber.
  • skykooler 11y ago
    You could argue that, with Youtube, Google has more media content than the other ten combined.
  • santaclaus 11y ago
    Sony is a pretty massive media company as well.
  • eugenekolo2 11y ago
    > ten years from now, will people be arguing AWS is a utility as it becomes as big as a major cable company Interesting point.