Interesting chart. Note that this is eyeballs, not profits or subscriber numbers. YouTube is free. Most all of the other services are paid, even when subscribing with ads.

Also there’s no WBD channel, so this is lumping all channels by conglomerate ownership. It would be interesting to see this by channel. Hulu viewership is being lumped in with Disney, I assume. Tubi and Pluto bolstering Fox? and Paramount numbers.

And sports:

Disney’s 0.2 point gain over March was partly driven by cross-network coverage of the NFL Draft, the NCAA Women’s Basketball Championship and the first round of the NBA Playoffs.

If you curate your Youtube experience decently by subbing to worthwhile creators only it's damn high quality content.

Never paying Youtube a single cent though. I'll consider donating to the creators directly (or buying from their store) if their efforts are sufficient.

Conversely what is there to watch on YouTube? I mean I obviously have seen video on you tube of one kind or another, but it's never been a place to go to watch a TV show or movie.

The chart isn't about streaming services, but companies. So this is covering everything that is owned by Disney, which includes broadcast and cable channels in addition to Disney+, and probably Hulu and maybe even other things that I'm not even aware of.

They have a ton of non-Disney stuff. Many old movies and shows. Like Buffy, Aliens, Monk.

And of course Star Wars.

I do wonder where Twitch would appear on this chart. Is it wayyyyyy under? Or does it not count as "TV"?

I don't view YouTube as competing with Disney or Netflix. It does compete in a "only so much time in the day" sense, but then there are a lot of things to look at.

Disney also owned April’s top streaming title, Grey’s Anatomy, which notched 3.9 billion viewing minutes and benefited from its multichannel and multiplatform availability.

WTF how are so many people still watching this show agter 20+ years? I honestly find this pretty shocking.

I watch a ton of automotive centric channels, hobbyist electronics/PC/home automation/3D printing channels and a few weird niche ones like drain cleaning and dashcams, stuff you would never see (or has never been viable) on TV at least without a bunch of product placement and manufactured drama.

For TV and movies I have my own media server and I just download the stuff I, or friends and family, want to watch but I think the experience, content, and presentation is quite different than what you find on Youtube. They fill different roles for me personally as one is pure entertainment while the other is a mix of educational and entertainment in typically shorter formats.

YouTube is basically where all the science and engineering content has moved to. How it's made, megafactories, air crash investigation, if you enjoyed that type of content, it's now on YouTube.

There is a paid version, and it's good value for money in my view.

There's a lot to shit on yt for. But they do actually pay people real money for their work. It's still surprising to me after all these years.

Almost anything you could want to watch is on yt in some form or another. Or listen to, it seems like every song ever made is on it too.

Might be a silly question, but is YouTube TV considered a part of YouTube here?

I am not sure why I got downvoted: your use case is exactly what I was thinking. And the other person who responded to me as well: you tube is watched a lot, but the content is largely like apples to oranges compared to say HBO or even Tubi.

Pretty much all travel content that is not people cosplaying as rich people is also on there. And for those who prefer something more varied than the traditional sports and don't have the patience for live streams on Twitch pretty much all the edited gaming related content is on Youtube too. And of course the other documentary/educational topics besides science and engineering like mathematics, geography, history,...

Most of what I would want to watch is definitely not on youtube. Although most of what I want to watch that is on YouTube is not on a pay channel. They seem apples to oranges to me, which is what I was driving at.

I wonder if they count listening to music with still image as "watching".

I find it hard to believe most of what you watch can't be found on yt in some way. Unless it's non english rare tv shows or something.

I assume any .mp4 is something watched, so music videos would count.

I would probably pay for Youtube if they stopped sabotaging their own platform and making it worse (e.g. adding shorts, releasing those horrible Rewind videos, preventing playlists with "content made for kids" (e.g. every music video of a song from some Disney movie), mixing in unrelated content into the search results,...).

Yet they only ever recommend things you have already watched, if there was a real alternative I think YouTube would die very quickly.