# How YouTube Created the Attention Economy  ## About - Author: Kevin Lozano - Title: How YouTube Created the Attention Economy - Tags: #articles #inoreader - URL: https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/the-overlooked-titan-of-social-media ## Highlights Bergen, a reporter for Bloomberg News and Businessweek, catalogues YouTube’s rise and the billions (of users, dollars, hours of video) it controls in a tone that is at once resigned, rhapsodic, and disgusted. The story his book unspools is one of breathtaking profit and foolish stumbles, violence and greed and corporate obfuscation. ---