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YouTube did better than Google Video because YouTube, by the nature of being a scrappy startup, was able to basically acquire a bunch of debt in the form of lawsuits, because they were doing things like letting people upload all these illegal videos, primarily because they didn’t have great technology to filter it out, and really no means to, but a... See more

Content and social are also unifying, with Twitch streaming and YouTube being the biggest video players. Meanwhile paid newsletters have taken off in a big way in the last two years. In content + community, an audience connects around a specific content producer through some platform.

We wasted the first thirty years of the internet futzing around with ad optimizations and trying to game capricious aggregators for scraps from their table.

When we talked about citizen journalism at YouTube, 2007, 2008, 2009, we were thinking Arab Spring—the idea that citizens with camera phones would be able to tell you a truth and give you opinions and access to realities that were often ignored or censored by government, the handful of media outlets that got most of the distribution and establishme... See more