YouTube does have competition: TikTok (there is a reason YouTube released “shorts”), Twitch and Facebook (which also supports live streaming). Vimeo, Metacafe

YouTube does have competition: TikTok (there is a reason YouTube released “shorts”), Twitch and Facebook (which also supports live streaming). Vimeo, Metacafe and Dailymotion used to be a lot more competitive with YouTube too. In some cases even having a larger market share than YT at one point. Plus there are plenty of adult streaming services too albeit they don’t directly compete due to YouTubes rules about video content. I think a large part of YouTubes success was because Google bought them back when Googles reputation was still top notch. I remember being indifferent about YouTube (even preferring Vimeo and Metacafe) but started using TouTube because of Google’s tie in. Now I use it in spite of Google.