YouTube CEO Neil Mohan recently insisted he’s not worried about Netflix and other streaming services poaching the service’s most popular creators.
During this time Mohan’s comment came A long interview with The New York Times series The Interview – which, as Mohan said, streams on YouTube. In fact, for most of the conversation he seemed to play the role of a benevolent conqueror; When Mohan was asked about mocking Oscar host Conan O’Brien on YouTube, he simply responded that O’Brien is “very funny” and that his “Team Coco Chanel does really well on YouTube.”
As for popular podcasts like “The Breakfast Club” and “My Favorite Murder” going to netflixMohan said it is “flattering” that competitors “see us as the center of culture.” But he said that when he talks to popular YouTubers, they tell him that “no matter what they want to do, they understand that YouTube is their home.”
“I have not seen YouTubers who have completely removed their content from YouTube,” Mohan said. He said that when YouTubers interact with other platforms, those streamers will always “accept what our YouTubers know is the right decision for them in the long term, which is to never leave their home.”
