Is YouTube’s disruption of TV now complete?
The Inquiry
BBC
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🗓️ 14 November 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Earlier this year the global video sharing platform You Tube dominated TV viewership in the United States, knocking Disney off the top spot and leaving major media names like Netflix, Paramount, Amazon and Fox in its wake. In a first for the streaming platform, the time people spent watching YouTube on television accounted for 10.4 percent of total TV in the month of July.
In terms of its world reach, the platform is now available in more than one hundred countries and pulls in nearly three billion users every month, the majority of which are between 25 and 34 years old, that’s younger than the core audience for traditional television.
Launched in 2005, YouTube has since expanded and diversified, but it’s niche area for dominating the market is still in user generated content and the advertising income it draws in provides the platform with its main source of revenue, leaving the traditional TV market in its wake.
So, on this week’s Inquiry, we’re asking ‘Is YouTube’s disruption of TV now complete?’
Contributors: Mark Bergen, Reporter with Bloomberg Technology, Author of ‘Like, Comment, Subscribe: Inside YouTube’s Chaotic Rise to World Domination’, London, UK.
Chris Stokel-Walker, Journalist, Author of ‘YouTubers: How YouTube Shook Up TV and Created a New Generation of Stars’, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Rahul Telang, Professor of Information Systems, Carnegie Mellon University, Co-Author of ‘Streaming, Sharing, Stealing: Big Data and the Future of Entertainment’, Pennsylvania, USA
Dr. Marlen Komorowski, Professor for European Media Markets, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Senior Research Fellow, Cardiff University, Wales, UK Presenter: Charmaine Cozier Producer: Jill Collins Researcher: Kirsteen Knight Editor: Tara McDermott Technical Producer: Cameron Ward Production Co-ordinator: Tim Fernley
Image: Silhouettes of laptop and mobile device users are seen next to a screen projection of the YouTube logo
Credit: Reuters/Dado Ruvić
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| 0:57.0 | July 2024, USA. It's an exciting time for YouTube. For the first time, Americans are spending the highest amount of their total viewing time watching the online video sharing platform on TVs. YouTube knocks |
| 1:04.2 | Disney from the top of the chart, which also includes major media names like Netflix, Paramount, |
| 1:10.0 | Amazon and Fox. The months that follow |
| 1:13.0 | will see it pushed back into second place behind Disney and NBC Universal. But its wider impact |
| 1:19.6 | continues around the world, including the UK. There, again for the first time, less than half of |
| 1:26.8 | 16 to 24-year-olds are watching traditional |
| 1:29.7 | television sets. They're spending more time on video sharing platforms instead. So this |
| 1:35.8 | week we're asking, is YouTube's disruption of TV now complete? Part 1. |
| 1:45.0 | Joke, Threat, Obvious. |
| 1:47.0 | We have an entire generation that's grown up with watching YouTube. |
| 1:54.0 | Mark Bergen is a reporter with Bloomberg Technology. |
| 1:57.0 | He's also the author of Like, Comment, Subscribe, Inside YouTube's Chaotic Rise to World Domination. |
| 2:04.8 | One of its strengths and the reason it's been so successful nearly 20 years now is that it can be cut of all things to all people. |
| 2:10.7 | Nearly 3 billion people around the world use YouTube every month. |
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