Happy birthday to everyone’s favorite video site, YouTube. What? Its NOT everyone’s favorite video site? Did I read Dan Rayburn’s blog about it? He said what?
To Mark YouTube’s 5th birthday, StreamingMedia’s Dan Rayburn bequeaths them a gift of a big steaming pile dog poo, reminding us all not how great YouTube is, but rather, how little they’ve really done for the industry. The best part? He’s right.
Sure, that platform has had a big impact on the lives of a lot of people, but each time YouTube has a birthday, or delivers another billion streams, Chad Hurley wants to try to convince us of why YouTube should get all the credit, for everything in the industry.
Specifically Dan cites:
They haven’t created any codecs, new delivery protocols, created any industry standards or even lead the pack by adding new functionality. While Chad talks about all of YouTube’s “innovation” lets not forget that they don’t even support streaming, don’t support live, only recently starting supporting HD, have a cap on the size of file that can be uploaded and have plenty of other limitations of their service.
And in another pretty blunt jab:
Without YouTube being sold to Google, it would be out of business.
Head over to Dan’s blog and read the whole thing for yourself.
Happy Birthday, YouTube. Do you know you were adopted and your mommy doesn’t love you?
Thanks, Dan! That totally brightened my day.
Youtube is my favortie site to visit aside from facebook. most of the time i watched movie trailers and music videos on it.