The supply of content competing for the same attention has outgrown professional output by orders of magnitude: Hollywood released roughly 15,000 hours of new film and TV in the US in 2022, against a YouTube upload rate of 500 hours a minute, or over 250 million hours a year, which YouTube disclosed in a May 2019 Newfronts presentation and has not updated since. The two sides of the comparison are three years apart and the later figure is the smaller one, so the ratio is a floor rather than a measurement. On that floor, consumers finding 0.01% of uploads competitive would double Hollywood's annual output.

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Last year, Hollywood released about 15,000 hours of new TV episodes and lms in the U.S. Creators upload 500 hours of content to YouTube each minute, or over 250 million hours per year. If consumers consider just 0.01% of this to be competitive with Hollywood, that would double Hollywood's annual output; if they consider 0.1% competitive, it would be 20x. AI is set to democratize high production values. At the same time, many consumers' denitions of quality are shiin

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And keep in mind that was in 2019. It has surely increased since then.

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Source: YouTube Newfronts presentation, May 2019.