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YouTube has become the world’s largest media company, The Hollywood Reporter<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n

YouTube had more than $60 billion in revenue in 2025, parent company Alphabet reported last month.<\/p>\n

According to calculations by the financial research firm MoffettNathanson, YouTube earned approximately $62 billion in 2025, surpassing The Walt Disney Company in revenue.<\/p>\n

The firm, which declared YouTube the “new king of all media” last year, estimates the company’s value at around $500–560 billion, far exceeding the value of traditional media companies. The closest competitor is Netflix, with a market cap of about $409 billion at present.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

YouTube has become the world’s largest media company, The Hollywood Reporter writes. YouTube had more than $60 billion in revenue in 2025, parent company Alphabet reported last month. According to calculations by the financial research firm MoffettNathanson, YouTube earned approximately $62 billion in 2025, surpassing The Walt Disney Company in revenue. The firm, which declared […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":242912,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world","category-society"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243002,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243001\/revisions\/243002"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}