Streaming video requires excruciatingly expensive infrastructure. It's one of reasons why there are no competitors to be seen.

It requires less expensive infrastructure than AI, and AI has tons of competitors.

YouTube simply enjoys a classic network effects monopoly, and that’s why their margins are high compared to any other business in the S&P500.

There will be no competitors if one of the player in the field does it for free for enough time. We'd call that "dumping" if it was a manufacturer.

It would be dumping if they took much less than 55%, but they actually do make profits so its not dumping.

YouTube has been in the red at least until 2010 under most estimations.

For reference that's around the point Vimeo started pivoting to different strategies and blocking long content as they couldn't pay for the infra.

That's also around that time that Dailymotion went down the pipes with the French gov stepping in to save the remains.

YouTube thrived from there as creators and advertisers had nowhere else to go at that point. That's the dumping part.

Video especially with high-bit rates is most expensive medium to deliver and store. Well, I suppose Youtube could move to model where they charge for creators for both of those and drop their cut to 30%...