YouTube to Hollywood: We are going to eat you

A YouTube executive needed only 27 minutes to make the case that the company is taking over all aspects of how people create and consume video online.

That was the length of a recent talk by Fede Goldenberg, YouTube’s head of TV and film partnerships, at the StreamTV conference in Denver last month. Goldenberg’s presentation had an upbeat title, “YouTube is the new TV.” But the talk carried an unmistakable undertone: Resistance is futile.

I happened to be at that conference to moderate a couple of panels...