The 2010 timeline

1. Jan20
   VideoVerified

   YouTube launches an HTML5 video beta

   YouTube began offering an experimental HTML5 player that worked without Flash in Chrome and Safari, an early signal in the year's Flash-versus-HTML5 fight.

No events recorded for February in this category.

1. Mar1
   VideoVerified

   OK Go's Rube Goldberg video is released

   OK Go released the single-take This Too Shall Pass video, a warehouse-sized machine synchronised to the song, one of the defining web videos of 2010.

No events recorded for April in this category.

No events recorded for May in this category.

1. Jun29
   VideoSupported

   Hulu Plus launches

   Hulu introduced a $9.99 subscription with full seasons and apps for the iPhone and iPad, its first step from free ad-supported TV toward paid streaming.

1. Jul3
   FeaturedVideoSupported

   Double Rainbow goes viral

   Jimmy Kimmel tweeted a January video of Paul Vasquez weeping at a double rainbow in Yosemite; within weeks it had millions of views, an Auto-Tuned remix and a Microsoft advert.

2. Jul31
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   The Bed Intruder Song is posted

   The Gregory Brothers Auto-Tuned Antoine Dodson's local-news interview into a song that became the most-watched YouTube video of the year and reached the Billboard Hot 100.

No events recorded for August in this category.

1. Sep22
   VideoVerified

   Netflix launches in Canada, its first market outside the US

   Netflix's streaming-only Canadian service at C$7.99 a month was its first international expansion and a template for the streaming-only plan it launched in the US in November.

No events recorded for October in this category.

1. Nov22
   VideoVerified

   Netflix launches a $7.99 streaming-only plan in the US

   Netflix introduced its first US plan without DVDs and raised DVD-plan prices, signalling that streaming was now the main business.

No events recorded for December in this category.