YouTube CEO says the best YouTubers will ‘never leave their home’

In Brief

YouTube CEO Neal Mohan precocious insisted that helium isn’t disquieted astir Netflix and different streaming services luring distant the service’s astir fashionable creators.

Mohan’s comments came during a agelong interrogation with The New York Times bid The Interview — which, arsenic Mohan noted, streams connected YouTube. Indeed, helium seemed to play the magnanimous victor for overmuch of the conversation; erstwhile asked astir Oscar big Conan O’Brien’s poking amusive astatine YouTube, Mohan simply replied that O’Brien is “very funny” and that his “Team Coco transmission does truly good connected YouTube.”

As for fashionable podcasts similar “The Breakfast Club” and “My Favorite Murder” moving to Netflix, Mohan said it’s “flattering” that competitors “see america arsenic the halfway of culture.” But helium said that erstwhile helium speaks to fashionable YouTubers, they archer him that “no substance what they look to do, they recognize that YouTube is their home.”

“I person not travel crossed YouTubers that person wholly yanked their contented disconnected YouTube,” Mohan said. He added that erstwhile YouTubers negociate with different platforms, those streamers volition ever “acquiesce to what our YouTubers yet cognize is the close determination for them successful the agelong term, which is to ne'er permission their home.”

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