Youtube and Streaming Videos
YouTube is a video sharing website that allows users to upload, view, and share video clips. It seems that YouTube is so popular like it was never before. Billions of clips are being viewed on a monthly basis by millions of unique visitors. Taking into account that Youtube is only a few years old, that is massive success. It seems that nothing can stop YouTube from dominating the market, which proves that Google’s decision to acquire YouTube was justified. When it comes to video streaming sites, on the second place comes MySpace with 85% less traffic compared to YouTube. On the third place comes Yahoo, and on the fourth position is Google Video. It is worthy of note that Google owns two of these websites: YouTube and Google Video. This makes other sites hard to compete with Google. It also proves that Google can achieve dominance not only when it comes to search engines, but also other aspects of the Web.
On the other hand, since this company achieved so much, it has also a lot to lose. One of the reasons Youtube achieved such a success is because it is innovative. Besides allowing people to watch over 100 million videos every day, to keep up with the competition YouTube launched a live channel during November, 2008. This channel allows viewing streaming videos all over the world. This is great news for anyone interested in streaming videos, and it will be also interesting to see in the upcoming years how easy accessibility of live video streaming will revolutionize the Internet.
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