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How did YouTube become the monopoly it is? Seems they were always riding Vimeo’s coattails and have been rewarded handsomely for it.
Back then Google was "do no evil", and they had the infrastructure and the finances to support an endeavor like YouTube.
For some reason, I'd never heard of vimeo until YouTube was already the default video powerhouse.
Google was willing to lose money for awhile.
indeed, this is this unfair advantage to these silicon valley behemots.
Storage, YouTube has way more data (crap) uploaded to it than vimeo.
From my perspective it was ease of use. I remember back in the day ( ~2009 ) that youtube became the defacto standard because its ui was simple, it loaded quickly, it was straight to the point, free, didnt require login and you could upload content straight from your android phone after recording it. So sharing was pretty much instant.
After that they came up with policies to help people create actual content ( reward content that had thought put into it, reward creators etc ) which helped with the rise of quality content and make youtube in the youtube it was today.
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.