Or will Google Video Search be the new entry point to thousands of hosts?

“We don’t have a single website will all the images in the world”

Yes, that’s obviously true.
But if you want your images to get noticed (as a photographer, for example) you’d better be on Flickr.

Social platforms like YouTube and Flickr offer a lot of advantages.

And, sadly, we don’t know (or care to learn collectively) how to build decentralized social platforms.

(and so, no, Facebook is not the solution ‘against’ YouTube)

“I strongly doubt that all of mankind’s video will be hosted on a single site for the rest of mankind’s existence.”

Who would have thought that just 3 companies (Microsoft, Yahoo, Google) would host hundreds of millions of personal and professional emails?

An enormous share of all emails of mankind, just 3 companies.

It’s totally against the original intent of the emailing system — but it’s a reality.

And anyway, YouTube is not a walled garden in the AOL sense.

YouTube has an open API.
YouTube is accessible from anywhere (save for govs censorship) and anybody can use it.

It’s not what AOL was. At all.

The analogy with AOL is misleading us into believing that history will repeat again.

It will probably not.

Please, understand that I’m all for a non-centralized web. We surely need more web video platforms, with more options and more use-cases.

And Delve Networks is, I’m sure, trying to offer exactly that.

But we must not fool ourselves: centralized content platforms won’t just go away like that.