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I think YouTube's success is mainly that they were first, there were always free to use so there was no reason for anybody to look elsewhere. It's hard to compe
by simias 7y ago
I think YouTube's success is mainly that they were first, there were always free to use so there was no reason for anybody to look elsewhere. It's hard to compete against free and established services. You basically have to find a killer feature (and hope that the established service will be slow to copy it) or pay people to do the switch.
>Not everyone wants to be on the Internet's sewage system that's YouTube.
Yet basically everyone is. Content producers want to reach their audience, viewers want to find the content they care about.
- muglug 7y ago> I think YouTube's success is mainly that they were first Actually, Vimeo's first videos[0] were uploaded a month before YouTube's[1]. [0] https://vimeo.com/15 https://vimeo.com/15 [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw
- simias 7y agoThank you for pointing it out, for some reason I thought that Vimeo was significantly more recent.
- nitrogen 7y agoI think Google Video also launched slightly before YouTube, if I'm remembering and reading the dates right.
- muglug 7y agoNo, that was in April 2005: https://www.infoworld.com/article/2669287/google-launches-video-upload-program.html https://www.infoworld.com/article/2669287/google-launches-vi...