youtube is a central part of many of our lives, sad as that may be. it's incredibly easy to squander away hours looking at ridiculous videos of dogs singing and hamsters on pianos, and we rely heavily (though certainly not legally) on it for episodes of our favorite tv shows.
youtube has taken off rapidly; it started in 2005, with the first uploaded video being "me at the zoo" uploaded by the site's founder, jawed karim.
the site has created these online celebrities and the phenomenon of "viral videos" because they spread like a virus. but with success comes competition, and this has come primarily in the form of hulu.
hulu is a commercially-supported video hosting site that posts videos from networks like nbc and fox. the advantage to hulu is that the videos are of much higher quality and can be expanded without losing an picture quality. the major downside is the lack of options as far as which shows are provided.
i don't think that hulu will really pose any serious threat to youtube. youtube will always be the epitome of stupid video humor (with collegehumor coming in second), and it will always feature copyrighted shows it's not supposed to, because it's so difficult to monitor what gets uploaded.
in short, the end of youtube is not near. but it will be interesting to see where it will go from this point.
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how dare you say college humor comes in second!(that's my favorite site) I agree though that youtube should not feel threatened. the key difference between youtube and hulu is that anyone can contriubute content to youtube and only major corporations can post videos on hulu... so until another site can seriously compete with youtube for user generated content they've got nothing to worry about.
If you got time check out kumail nanjiani on college humor live (chlive) ... i know you like standup comedy and this guy is hilarious.
Now it seems that Youtube is trying to compete with hulu. they added a high quality video option, and are now even showing network TV shows with commercial sponsors.
I guess I'm behind the times, but I have yet to try Hulu. We learned about it a little in management under Innovation and it was described as breakthrough service, I'll have to check it out!
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