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YouTube short form already grew up into something like Quibi. You could make a more compelling offering than Quibi simply by curating existing content. That's why no one cares about Quibi -- they already have YouTube.


You couldn't get away with charging a subscription fee there, and I don't think you're significantly eating into the 20+min streaming market.

You could possibly pull off more premium ad rates, though... but you could really only do this from inside Google.


Charging a subscription for curated YouTube content is literally the business that Nebula [1] and Floatplane [2] is in. It's just not a $1.75B business or anything close to it.

[1] https://watchnebula.com/ [2] https://www.floatplane.com/




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