Is a billion-dollar opportunity “hogging” your bandwidth?
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By Joseph FlahertyYesterday, VentureBeat reported that more than 50 billion hours of video games were watched on YouTube in 2018, roughly the same amount of time spent binge-watching the entire Netflix catalog.It’s an extraordinary number and reflects a massive generational shift in pop culture preferences, but what’s even more interesting is how unlikely it seemed a decade ago when the major online video platforms were hostile to video game uploads.In 2008, Vimeo banned video game uploads — outright. In retrospect, this might have been a company defining decision. YouTube hadn’t yet achieved breakout success with the “Lazy Sunday” clip from Saturday Night Live, and was just one of many viable video hosts. Picking up on the popularity of gaming might have changed Vimeo’s trajectory. To be fair, (...)
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