[treme]

how much effort did meta put into building a legit competition vs netflix/youtube? it's hard to imagine they couldn't put up a decent competition with max user reach and $

just how great of a moat do yt/netflix have? is Disney the only one mounting a decent fight?

[cherioo]

There’s plenty of competition to netflix.

Tiktok is probably the biggest competitor to YT. But it had to come in from short form video angle, because the moat of YT in long form video is probably insurmountable. Its fate remains to be seen.

[Mindwipe]

Wha?

Hacker News is literally constantly claiming that there are too many competitors to Netflix and there needs to be some kind of compulsory licensing to reduce competition. Like there are hundreds of posts on the front page every week to that effect.

Meta never took Watch very seriously, just because it requires literally billions of dollars of investment and they clearly never wanted to spend that much.

They licensed Buffy the Vampire Slayer for the US, clearly saw it didn't move the needle much and they'd need to spend $5 billion+ to get there, and scrapped the whole idea.