Alex on Nostr: Somehow feels “retro” for #YouTube to overtake Netflix in viewing time among ...

Somehow feels “retro” for #YouTube to overtake Netflix in viewing time among teenagers. This is a platform whose breakthrough moment for early adopters was watching like old politics videos on a Dell tower PC in 2006. It doesn’t quite scan even now as a “streaming service.”

But it does feel like the one #Google/#Alphabet property with no credible alternative. My niece (6) nephew (3) are obsessed with it, for instance. https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/11/youtube-passes-netflix-as-top-video-source-for-teens.html