Your data is reaching at best, and seems like you are just looking for confirmation bias.
Youtube is not dying at all. Youtube's main platform has never been streaming services in the first place, so of course platforms that use live streaming as their main service are going to produce better numbers.
Also, never understand post where people get off on services "dying" just because their "big," instead of showing post about alt-services rising...
Oh that's right, because they aren't showing massive growth.
I'd argue that 282% growth and more than doubling last quarters numbers are massive. So, your point saying they aren't showing massive growth is wrong. However, saying that a service is dying was a choice on my end as a title like "YouTube is Dying" is much stronger in terms of reactions than a title like "Check out the livestreaming platform which grew 282% this quarter." People love negative stuff, so I give it!
. And while YouTube's main platform isn't streaming, many within the industry agree that live streaming is the future of video content. If YouTube isn't getting a win in that category they're future looks bleak.
Also, I don't want YouTube to die. Less competition is always bad, plus it's where the majority of my audience is located. If anything I'd hope for YouTube's future to be bright, but I fear they aren't doing well at the moment.
So you admit making a clickbait title that isn't relevant.
I never claimed that services that focus on streaming aren't growing, I was claiming Youtube isn't dying just because other streaming services are growing. You're comparing apples to oranges.
Like others have said, 1 QTR is not enough to base this on anyway. If you look at 2017 as a whole. Youtube had DOUBLE the growth % than twitch.
In reference to:
You said in your first comment:
I guess I assumed that to mean you thought those services weren't growing. But, W.E. Let's chuck that up to text being difficult to convey ideas sometimes.
regarding:
I wouldn't say the title is irrelevant. YouTube is hurting in a big way. Losing 30% of creators is a huge decline. If this repeats, YouTube will be the smallest platform for live content by the end of this year. Additionally, being 120% behind the industry average is a huge deal, even if it's just 1 Quarter. If bitcoin was down 30% while every other crypto grew an average of 90%, don't you think people would be pronouncing bitcoin dead?
Lastly, can you post a source for YouTube's 2017 year growth? I can't find anything that suggests double the growth twitch had.
No, I didn't.
https://blog.streamlabs.com/streamlabs-livestreaming-q4-report-tipping-reaches-100m-for-the-year-youtube-dominates-in-4bf450fae536