Online video+Section 2
YouTube at five years old: 360p by default, Flash players, viral videos passed around by email and Facebook, and the first YouTube stars turning views into careers.
Most watched of 2010
"Hide yo kids, hide yo wife": the most-watched video of 2010
Antoine Dodson's furious, funny interview on a Huntsville, Alabama news broadcast in July 2010 was Auto-Tuned into a song by the Gregory Brothers days later. YouTube named Bed Intruder Song the most-watched video uploaded in 2010; it also reached the Billboard Hot 100 and paid for Dodson's family to move house.
Double Rainbow
Paul "Bear" Vasquez (Yosemitebear62)
Old Spice: The Man Your Man Could Smell Like
Wieden+Kennedy for Procter & Gamble
Kesha: Tik Tok
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Justin Bieber: Baby (feat. Ludacris)
Justin Bieber featuring Ludacris
Lady Gaga: Bad Romance
Lady Gaga
Lady Gaga: Telephone (feat. Beyoncé)
Lady Gaga featuring Beyoncé
OK Go: This Too Shall Pass (Rube Goldberg machine)
OK Go, directed by James Frost and Syyn Labs
Ray William Johnson, Smosh, nigahiga, Fred, Shane Dawson
In 2010 the most-subscribed YouTube channels belonged to comedians who edited themselves in their bedrooms: Ray William Johnson's =3 viral-video...
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"Hey Apple!": the web series that became a TV show
Dane Boedigheimer's Annoying Orange, a talking orange with a human mouth and eyes, was one of the biggest channels on YouTube in 2010, with episodes...
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Official music videos come to YouTube
Vevo, a joint venture of Universal and Sony launched in December 2009, put official music videos on YouTube with premium ads. In 2010 its channels...
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Free TV on the web, with ads, US only
Hulu streamed current episodes of network TV shows for free with commercials, a revelation in 2010 when most television was still cable or DVD. Hulu...
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File lockers, 72-minute limits and pirated TV
Megaupload and its video arm Megavideo were among the busiest sites on the internet in 2010, hosting everything from legitimate file transfers to...
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Red envelopes, and a streaming-only plan
In 2010 Netflix was still mostly a DVD-by-mail company, but streaming was taking over: Watch Instantly worked on the Wii, PS3, Xbox 360, Roku and,...
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Where filmmakers uploaded in HD
Vimeo was the arty alternative to YouTube in 2010: cleaner pages, HD playback, no ads in the player, and a community of designers, animators and...
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Netflix introduced its first US plan without DVDs and raised DVD-plan prices, signalling that streaming was now the main business.
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