{"id":980070,"date":"2025-12-13T07:48:52","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T02:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=980070"},"modified":"2025-12-13T08:01:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T02:31:20","slug":"netflixs-72-billion-warner-bros-deal-faces-skepticism-over-youtube-rivalry-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/13\/netflixs-72-billion-warner-bros-deal-faces-skepticism-over-youtube-rivalry-claim\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix&#8217;s $72 billion Warner Bros deal faces skepticism over YouTube rivalry claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix says it must acquire Warner Bros Discovery to compete with YouTube, but antitrust experts doubt regulators will buy that argument.<\/p>\n<p>The streaming giant&#8217;s $72 billion takeover of Warner Bros Discovery&#8217;s studios and HBO Max will face scrutiny from US and global regulators, given its scale and the combined 428 million subscribers.<\/p>\n<p>Netflix insists the deal is needed to challenge Alphabet&#8217;s YouTube, which media analysis firm Nielsen ranks as America&#8217;s most-watched TV distributor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix says it must acquire Warner Bros Discovery to compete with YouTube, but antitrust experts doubt regulators will buy that argument. The streaming giant&#8217;s $72 billion takeover of Warner Bros Discovery&#8217;s studios and HBO Max will face scrutiny from US and global regulators, given its scale and the combined 428 million subscribers. Netflix insists the deal is needed to challenge Alphabet&#8217;s YouTube, which media analysis firm Nielsen ranks as America&#8217;s most-watched TV distributor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-980070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=980070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=980070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=980070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=980070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}