Netflix's $72 billion Warner Bros deal faces skepticism over YouTube rivalry claim [Yahoo! Finance]
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Source: Yahoo! Finance
The streaming giant's $72 billion takeover of Warner Bros Discovery's studios and HBO Max will face scrutiny from ?U.S. and global regulators, given its scale and the combined 428 million subscribers. Netflix insists the deal is needed to challenge Alphabet's YouTube, ?which media analysis firm Nielsen ranks as America's most-watched TV distributor. But attorneys say the Justice Department is unlikely to see Netflix and YouTube as interchangeable rivals, given their different content, audiences ?and business models. “Netflix is trying to say it competes with YouTube because people only watch a certain amount of content a day,” said Abiel Garcia, antitrust partner at Kesselman Brantly Stockinger. “That argument ultimately fails.” Netflix spends billions of dollars on scripted original movies and series like "Stranger Things" and "KPop Demon Hunters". It frequently dominates Nielsen's ranking of most-streamed original series, accounting for eight of the top 10 originals in a rece
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