IF NETFLIX WINS WITH WARNER BROS... They’ll STILL Lose to YouTube

The bidding war for Warner Bros. Discovery is over…for now. Netflix shocked Hollywood by announcing a deal to acquire the storied studio and its crown jewel, HBO Max, beating out a massive $108 billion hostile bid from Paramount. But in this episode, we argue that the $87 billion mega-deal is nothing more than a desperate move by Hollywood to consolidate power. David Zaslav’s WBD was a "fiasco," and the merger of "prestige" content like Succession with Netflix's data-driven content has the industry freaking out. The real threat to Hollywood isn't a rival studio, but Silicon Valley. We explain why Netflix and Paramount are fighting each other while the true watch time beast is YouTube and TikTok.

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IF NETFLIX WINS WITH WARNER BROS... They’ll STILL Lose to YouTube is an episode from Dead Cat by Eric Newcomer | newcomer.co.

This episode is 00:24:45 long.

This episode was published on Dec 12, 2025.

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