This is why YouTube needs to be spun off from Google: because there are alternatives to YouTube (Vimeo, P2P streaming), but good luck finding an alternative to YouTube.

YouTube runs at a loss. If it was spun off from google it would not be viable.

as far as I'm aware nobody has ever shown this, all analysis I've seen that lead to that conclusion are based on ideas that Google pays Tier 1 provider rates for Youtube bandwidth, which is definitely not true (Google is directly peered with pretty much every ISP on earth)

There are some sources. https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/593tgc/reminder_go...

I still believe Google has a LARGE interest in owning it though. Obviously. It's simply maybe not good enough in itself

I don't know. The content is not there on other services and my experience of the app is horrendous.

I'd rather turn myself to twitch or netflix to fulfill most of my youtube needs.

And as you say, they won't spun it off, it justs teaches too much about us and is the perfect ad delivery platform for them :s.