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most of us probably remember the days when watching videos online meant

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squinting at grainy pixelated Clips in a

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tiny Real Player window assuming our connection was fast enough to support

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streaming video at all but in 2005 a few

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guys that used to work for PayPal came up with the idea for YouTube after they

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noticed how difficult it was to do something as simple as share a popular

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video of a big news story or wardrobe malfunction and although YouTube wasn't

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the first site that was dedicated to sharing videos those actually started

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popping up in the mid to late 1990s thanks to their timing they were among

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the first to take advantage of the increasing popularity of broadband

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connections fast enough to even watch videos easily as well as miniature

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cameras on things like cell phones that allowed people to take videos anywhere

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creating a large market for both watching and uploading videos online

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YouTube also converted all videos into Adobe flash to ensure that as many

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people as possible could use the site since virtually every web browser at the

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time supported the flash plug-in though today they're migrating towards the less

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resource heavy HTML 5 YouTube's good

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launch timing made it wildly popular so much so that Google bought the site less

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than 2 and A2 years later for over a billion and a half dollar good thing too

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since as of the end of 2014 300 hours of

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footage are being upload uploaded to YouTube per minute fortunately though

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YouTube has access to Google's hundreds of thousands of servers to handle all

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those terabytes upon terabytes of bad infomercials reaction videos and

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professional unboxings of course Google

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wouldn't have shelled out all that paper if they didn't think that YouTube had

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the potential to be a huge Money Maker so YouTube rolled out its partner

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program in 2007 allowing YouTubers like

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yours truly to share in the sites ad Revenue by placing banner ads and later

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pre-roll ads on their videos and the gravy train didn't stop there as YouTube

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also formed Partnerships with major content Distributors like NBC Universal

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in 2006 and Vivo in 2009 to gain even

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more ad Revenue by featuring highly sought after videos like music videos

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and also to ward off the copyright lawsuits that plagued the company in its

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very early days 2009 was a big year for

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YouTube that was the beginning of support for 1080p full HD video and in

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2011 just two years later to contribute to the trend of cord cutting in which

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people were finding ways to watch high quality content without paying for an

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expensive cable or satellite subscription they poured a hundred

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million into the funding of startup

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original content from existing creators and from other celebrities YouTube also

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tweaked its search algorithm in 2012

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placing more more emphasis on watch time instead of raw view count which not only

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helped to bury irrelevant videos with view counts inflated by Bots or people

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watching them for a few seconds because of an attractive thumbnail that turned

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out to have nothing to do with the actual content but also allowed trending

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content to get to the top of search results more easily making the site more

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of a distribution platform for new videos rather than just a huge Dusty

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repository for 10-year-old home movies of people's cat

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since then the site has continued encouraging its users to cut the cord so

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to speak even further by live streaming popular events and launching YouTube Red

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a monthly subscription service although cheaper than a cable subscription that

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will offer AdFree playback access to more original content although that

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background and while its relatively High Cost of $10 a month has been roundly

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