YouTube Premium Is Bringing Peacock’s Old-School Content to Its Platform
THE SO WHAT
YouTube Premium bundling Peacock-era sports and sitcom reruns is another step toward YouTube as a full cable replacement, not just UGC. For media and creator businesses, the competition for watch time is consolidating into a few super-aggregators—plan distribution and ad spend accordingly.
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