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Google has an actual product (ads) and YouTube isn't built on pre-existing content, it's a platform for content creation (and ads for that content). Both add a lot more value than Genius did.


Movie clips and music videos are surely a double digit percent of youtube's views, not to mention other categories I may be missing.


Again though, they're posted by the creators (every artist I know of has their own Youtube account, all the major studios post their own teasers) versus people re-posting others' stuff. Most Youtube content nowadays is pretty original.


Nowadays. YouTube became big through users uploading pirated music to it.




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