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The article uses YouTube as an example of a new "cultural category" that has nevertheless settled into the old "winner-take-all dynamic". What??
by dgreensp 18y ago
The article uses YouTube as an example of a new "cultural category" that has nevertheless settled into the old "winner-take-all dynamic". What??
- tuukkah 18y agoDepends on what they mean by a cultural category. User-generated, online, social, video content has new cultural aspects even if the popularity dynamic is old.
- khafra 18y agoYes, I can name several youtube competitors that do quite well, focusing on a specific niche youtube ignores (but I can't visit them from here at work).
- cwp 18y agoYeah, that's a bit bizarre. YouTube is a great example of the long tail in action. Instead of considering YouTube a hit compared to the rest of the web, consider its content. If I post a video of me and my friends goofing off at the beach, only a handful of people will watch it. But there are a ton of those "niche" videos available on YouTube. That's the long tail, and YouTube is successful precisely because it exploits the long tail of video.
- Anon84 18y ago> That's the long tail, and YouTube is successful precisely because it exploits the long tail of video. Considering how much money they lose everyday, I would argue that's why they are not successful (without the all mighty Google to pay the bills, of course).