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It's quite simple. YouTube wants to be a dominant source for streaming music, to compete with Spotify. In order to do so they must keep the music labels happy.
by throwawayboise 5y ago
It's quite simple. YouTube wants to be a dominant source for streaming music, to compete with Spotify. In order to do so they must keep the music labels happy. They don't really care about content creators anymore.
- charles_f 5y agoThat sounds wrong. YouTube is by an order of magnitude the first video streaming platform on the way. I doubt that, were way to rake all Spotify's audience they would make even a significant portion of their video ad revenue.
- ImPostingOnHN 5y agothe growth demanded by shareholders isn't always horizontal or incremental