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posted by Jason Kottke  ·  gift link

YouTube is the dominant force in music

This is a nice article about how memes are often made or promoted deliberately by financial interests and not because of a spontaneous popular uprising, but mostly I wanted to highlight this statement:

Google’s YouTube, not Apple’s iTunes, is now the dominant force in music.

I’ve been convinced for awhile now that YouTube and not Android or Google+ will be their main source of revenue if/when Google’s search business wanes. (via @claytoncubitt)