In the last 4 years YouTube has paid creators over 100 BILLION dollars. They’ve paid more to creators than ALL other social media platforms combined have. Crazy
Google is the only company that owns the entire AI stack.
1. Chips: TPUs
2. Infrastructure: Google Cloud
3. Foundation Models: Deepmind
4. Applications: Gemini
Every layer matters.
The more layers you own, the bigger your advantage.
I love Cris Collinsworth but does he ever love him some Mahomes and Andy Reid and "championship" Chiefs. I'm afraid he's going to cry if they lose this game.
Reminder, ESPN launched their app, that's what they want you to use. So they go to YouTube and ask for ridiculous rise in broadcast rights which raises YT's prices. Then they post stuff like this.
People get the ESPN app, and then the price of that goes up. There's no competition when the networks are also the broadcasters/platform. All of this has become a complicated and more expensive mess for consumers.