Archive: https://archive.today/Yo8lU From the post: >>YouTube has been crowned the world’s largest media company, riding a years-long wave of user-generated videos — including millions of cat videos — to surge past even Walt Disney in revenue last year. The video-streaming service, which is owned by Alphabet Inc. GOOG +0.30% GOOGL +0.22% , took the top spot last year with $62.3 billion in revenue, according to data compiled by MoffettNathanson Research, narrowly beating out the $60.9 billion brought in by Disney’s DIS -0.33% media properties.