YouTube As Fast As Possible
Techquickie
·Techquickie
·2016-05-06
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976 words · ~4 min read
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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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depends on the creators to make it and music streaming with playback in the
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background and while its relatively High Cost of $10 a month has been roundly
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criticized it's reflective of Google's push to get people away from their TVs
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