A lot of that innovation benefits only YouTube . Also these other innovations (recommendation system, translations etc) existed before YouTube.
There are definitely innovations from the big companies but not “key” innovations.
In the article it looks at innovation from a national level. I.e new products and services, and methodology.
The scaling you describe is great but its only impact is within YouTube, and it’s not unique. Every other company of that size has also figured their own way to scale. No one was depending on YouTube for this.
Almost everything can be termed innovation, but we need to be mindful that we are trying to justify the existence of monopolies. Ie “society needs them otherwise we couldn’t figure it out”. With that the threshold for innovation increases quite a bit.
There are definitely innovations from the big companies but not “key” innovations.
In the article it looks at innovation from a national level. I.e new products and services, and methodology.
The scaling you describe is great but its only impact is within YouTube, and it’s not unique. Every other company of that size has also figured their own way to scale. No one was depending on YouTube for this.
Almost everything can be termed innovation, but we need to be mindful that we are trying to justify the existence of monopolies. Ie “society needs them otherwise we couldn’t figure it out”. With that the threshold for innovation increases quite a bit.