there are competitors (dailymotion, vimeo, ...) they're just not widely used because it's the usual winner take all people are also going to be queuing up to

there are competitors (dailymotion, vimeo, ...) they're just not widely used because it's the usual winner take all people are also going to be queuing up to peer with Google so they don't have to pay for transit unlikely to be the case for their competitors