YouTube Has a Firm Grip on Daytime TV (nytimes.com)
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- News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/12/24/1329210/youtube-has-a-firm-grip-on-daytime-tv
- Source link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/business/media/youtube-has-a-firm-grip-on-daytime-tv.html
The gap narrows significantly at night -- Netflix's audience swells to over 11 million at 9 p.m., trailing YouTube's 12 million -- but YouTube's dominance reasserts itself in overnight hours and through the next day. Netflix is responding by bringing at least 34 video podcasts to its service next year, including "The Breakfast Club," "The Bill Simmons Podcast," and "Pardon My Take." Amazon added the Kelce brothers' "New Heights" podcast to Prime Video in September. The strategy is intentional: roughly 75 percent of all podcast listening happens between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m., according to Edison Research. YouTube said viewers watched 700 million hours of video podcasts on living room devices in October alone, a 75% increase from the previous year.
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/business/media/youtube-has-a-firm-grip-on-daytime-tv.html
I think this is a good thing overall (Score:5, Informative)
I spend significantly more time watching YouTube videos than I do Netflix/Prime Video etc. My YouTube feed is mainly "maker" stuff like machining, woodworking, vehicle maintenance etc. but the main draw is that it's so easy to find stuff that I'm interested in as opposed to searching for a TV show/movie on Netflix that I might enjoy.
And the big plus... (Score:2)
Youtube is free so long as you don't mind the ads. 100% of factual stuff I watch now is on youtube though I'll still dip into TV for dramas but thats about it.
What about ad abuse? (Score:2)
How can anyone listen to youtube in the background when blaring ads start shouting at you at random intervals? How experience-ruining is it to be listening to a mellow jazz tune then suddenly without warning in the middle of a chorus a loud, obnoxious ad interrupts?
Is everyone but me paying a subscription fee?
All in all wasn't youtube much better before google started monetizing it?
"You must wait a little bit (1 minutes) before using this resource; please try again later."
Is google paying slashdot to thrott
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How about the ads where you have to drop what you're doing and hit the skip button unless you want to listen to said ad for the next 15 minutes. Can't imagine why anyone would use an ad blocker though!
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I used to have sports on for background noise until the color commentators got so obnoxious.
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I block YouTube ads but also support several channels directly via patreon.
Doubt (Score:2)
Considering how difficult it is to watch videos or listen to music on YT, I'm sure the bot farms trying to generate more ad money are a not insignificant portion of those numbers.
If you have to enable a dozen scripts and multiple other CSS elements and media just to play a 4 minute song, hoping nothing else needs enabled while you're listening, it isn't really worth the effort.
Sign in (Score:2)
The ads timings are far less obnoxious when you sign in with your google account.
YouTube != YouTube TV (Score:4, Informative)
The summary does not distinguish so it's impossible to know what exactly it's talking about l.
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Americans are meditating, exercising, cooking,
Which America are we talking about?
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That was intentional by the author, and msmash, who simply stole it, wouldn't know the difference.
Almost certainly they were counting all delivery mechanisms. It's the streaming being measured, not what app is used to select the streams.