• JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    How did YouTube become the monopoly it is? Seems they were always riding Vimeo’s coattails and have been rewarded handsomely for it.

    • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      How did YouTube become the monopoly it is?

      Back then Google was “do no evil”, and they had the infrastructure and the finances to support an endeavor like YouTube.

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      1 year ago

      For some reason, I’d never heard of vimeo until YouTube was already the default video powerhouse.

    • MSids@lemmy.sdf.org
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      1 year ago

      Vimeo is not for the same purpose. It’s more B2B. I read somewhere that after a certain threshold they start billing you for views.