The Rise of Online Video
How online video grew from YouTube's 2005 founding into a mainstream channel by 2012, tracing the Google acquisition and Dollar Shave Club's viral launch.
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How online video grew from YouTube's 2005 founding into a mainstream channel by 2012, tracing the Google acquisition and Dollar Shave Club's viral launch.
The developments that defined online video in 2008: Hulu's public launch, election-driven YouTube traffic and an economic downturn reshaping ad budgets.
An operational playbook for online video in 2008, covering Hulu's launch, tighter budgets from the downturn and lessons from this year's election video surge.
An operational playbook for online video in 2007, covering branded YouTube channels, the new Partner Program and what's changed since 2006's first viral clips.
Seven concrete online video tactics that work now that YouTube is the default host, from picking the right length to writing titles people search for.
What changed for online video in 2006: YouTube's growth and Google acquisition, easy embedding and the first wave of branded viral clips.
An illustrative look at a small kitchenware retailer that used the sudden arrival of free video hosting in 2005 to solve online video's bandwidth problem.
The year free video hosting arrived, Apple put video in your pocket and Adobe bought the company behind the format that would end up running it all.
A snapshot of where online video stood in 2004: broadband crossing the halfway mark, viral branded stunts and a format war nobody had won yet.
A practical playbook for producing and distributing branded video in 2004, before YouTube existed, when bandwidth costs and format fragmentation ruled.