Have you researched this, or are you making assumptions? Hosting videos is pretty cheap, and while getting the same amount of traffic as Youtube would get very

Have you researched this, or are you making assumptions? Hosting videos is pretty cheap, and while getting the same amount of traffic as Youtube would get very costly very fast, it could also be very profitable if monetization is done right. Plus technologies like PeerTube can significantly reduce bandwidth expenses if that's really an issue. Google wouldn't use something like that because the federation threatens their monopoly, but a competitor with a different business model definitely could make it work for them.