David Rosenthal: belief

26 Aug 2025 Acquired Google Part II: Alphabet

“Google doesn’t release usage data for YouTube, but I’m pretty sure that YouTube is the biggest single property on the Internet in terms of minutes spent by humans on it. It’s not, I believe that the biggest number of users on the Internet, both Facebook Blue App and WhatsApp are bigger in terms of total number of users.”

— David Rosenthal

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Speaker: David Rosenthal
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Claim type: belief
Recorded: 26 Aug 2025
Publisher: Acquired
Episode: Google Part II: Alphabet

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…I’m glad you asked. Netflix annual revenue for 2024 was 39 billion. They’ve already eclipsed Netflix. Wow. there you go. Google doesn’t release usage data for YouTube, but I’m pretty sure that YouTube is the biggest single property on the Internet in terms of minutes spent by humans on it. It’s not, I believe that the biggest number of users on the Internet, both Facebook Blue App and WhatsApp are bigger in terms of total number of users. But I think YouTube probably dwarfs them in terms of time spent by users on the app. I think it is the biggest, I could see that.…

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