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by paulie_a 2173 days ago
If youtube is considered a failure vs tiktok then I don't know what success would be.

Same with Hangouts and video calling.

Tiktok and zoom are both flash in the pan fads.

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Different use cases and monetization profiles.

Youtube requires a lot of server space compared to tiktok (<10 min means no ad money, so people make videos at least 10 min long!), and Zoom requires almost no space, while it can sell corporate subscriptions.

The only reason youtube still enjoys some success now is because it wasn't made in house, and the acquisition wasn't too badly managed. Grandcentral (parts of which still live as google voice) was a different story.

But it only shows how the last success google made "in-house" was a long, long time ago. The alphabet rebranding changed nothing. Since youtube, Google has turned into another yahoo for startup: a place they go to shrivel and die.