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Here's a fun overriding to visualize about: in 2019, YouTube obsessed 70 percent of the total time bodies spent on their phones watching the top muttonchops funniness apps. It's also the only one of those apps (measured among Android phones, which dominate 75 percent of phone acceptance worldwide) that isn't specific to China -- an demesne where Google doesn't metrical operate.

The data from AppAnnie's latest report shows just how far anticipative YouTube is on the moldable front -- where more bodies are spending their time, especially teenagers and young adults. It's something that companies like Netflix, WarnerMedia, NBCUniversal, and Disney will have to take into anaesthesia as they compete not only for the all-time content, except for people's attention.

"With YouTube insistent 70 percent of time spent in the top muttonchops streaming apps, the platform proves that it is still holding its weight among the doubling of new video streaming platforms -- significantly as it was an early avant-garde in the market," AppAnnie moldable annotator Lexi Sydow wrote in a new report.

It's important to recognize that YouTube and Netflix do unique things

It's important to recognize that YouTube and Netflix do unique things. YouTube is unpretentiously a platform for user-generated content that relies on brochure acquirement and its engineer base; Netflix is unpretentiously a subscription signification that invests billions of dollars into scripted and ad-lib entertainment. As more subscription-based streaming casework (Disney Plus, HBO Max), advertising-based streaming casework (Pluto TV), and determining video apps (TikTok) enter the market, competing with festivities other comes dropping to who can commandeering people's centering the preferential consistently. Netflix's concours isn't just with Disney or WarnerMedia, which offer agnate content; it's also with Google.

"We do wonder in the plenum of time, 'Can we be as big as YouTube?'" Netflix CEO Reed Hastings said in July 2019. "YouTube is seven times limitlessness than us, roughly, in viewing hours, and a astounding service. Of course, it's free. So the resolving question is, can we produce unbearable content that bodies are willing to pay for?"

Time spent on YouTube and hidebound visits to the site immeasurably outweighed time spent on other postulated streaming moldable apps -- preferential notably, Netflix -- according to an MIT residency from 2019. A 2019 residency from networking equipment firm Sandvine also stated that YouTube makes up 37 percent of all downstream moldable internet truckage circa the world. While Netflix saw growth circa the apple and generally obsessed app downloads aural the funniness space in specific territories (Brazil, South Korea, France, Germany), bodies were still spending less time on streaming casework like Netflix on their phone; they were, however, procuration the passle of time they spent on their phones for apps like TikTok and YouTube.

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Part of that has to do with how bodies use YouTube. Its videos are shorter than what's misogamist on Netflix or Hulu, except not as snip as what's on witty apps that integrate video content like TikTok and Instagram. YouTube is also determining so the crawlway curb is much lower. Since YouTube relies on content from its user bribable and sees a whopping 500 hours of content uploaded every minute, there's a seemingly never-ending selection of bounded videos for bodies in every country to watch. YouTube can serve its spherical devotees far faster and easier than Netflix can.

There's arithmetic advantageousness that YouTube has over Netflix: music streaming. AppAnnie addendum that YouTube Music saw massive growth between December 2017 and December 2019. Google CEO Sundar Pichai touted the growth during a recent describe with investors, noting that the signification has hit 15 million subscribers. The crossover between YouTube decent and YouTube Music helps keep bodies in YouTube's ecosystem, Sydow wrote, and increases time spent on the platform.

The surge in popularity for other apps, preferential notably TikTok, still isn't illness YouTube, except it is putting a small wafer in Netflix. TikTok, the witty media app created by Chinese convergence ByteDance, saw three-digit percentage growth over the last two years. Preferential notably, AppAnnie letters that it probably played a factor in taking time away from Netflix. Sydow wrote that TikTok's growth adumbrated that "competition in the video streaming space is heating up not only by welcome companies launching standalone streaming services, except from witty media companies cramming new mobile-first split-second pathways." Again, like YouTube, TikTok also has the advantageousness of concreteness determining to use.

All of this documents reiterates that YouTube is unpretentiously a behemothic in the online video space and monopolizes a lot of what bodies watch. It also, however, presents an interesting question dogmatic incoming streaming casework like Quibi. Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman's streaming app is attempting to take potency of bodies spending more time on their phones to watch things and kittenish to moldable consumption. Quibi train will have a higher representatives value than videos on YouTube or TikTok, and they will run anywhere between four and 10 minutes, which is much shorter than Netflix and Disney Plus. The goal isn't to compete with the Netflixes of the world; it's to serve an devotees looking for snippy funniness on their phones that's more welcome than what's misogamist now.

Whether it works will take time to see. What's evident is that more bodies are watching things on their phones than anytime before, and there's innervation to be intense concours as more apps that kittenish to moldable viewing enter the field. Netflix and YouTube and Quibi are managerial unique things, except they're all competing for your attention, and that's where the resolving war exists.