YouTube | Acquired Podcast

(Curator's comment: This is referring to YouTube’s decision to offer YouTube Red, a subscription service for ad-free experience.) They’re getting their highest value users, which are the people that the advertisers actually want to reach to not see the ads and to do brand advertising you need enormous scale, I mean Facebook and YouTube are the only... See more

YouTube did better than Google Video because YouTube, by the nature of being a scrappy startup, was able to basically acquire a bunch of debt in the form of lawsuits, because they were doing things like letting people upload all these illegal videos, primarily because they didn’t have great technology to filter it out, and really no means to, but a... See more