Now to all the YouTube video sharing lovers out there this is going to sound weird but has YouTube done to much for the internet, because of YouTube we have people addicted to watching videos online, gross stuff, fun stuff and news stuff. People have no time for anything else.
Nowadays on YouTube with the right amount of Viral advertising a stupid video can get over 10,000,000 Video Views and suddenly you have yourself an overnight internet celebrity.
Now me I realise that YouTube has been a ridiculos success (p.s. wish I started it), it has revolutionised the way we like to watch TV, If it weren't for YouTube you probably wouldn't know about all the latest songs on the market or what breaking news has happened over seas, but what about the little guys, people who before YouTube were making the waves, Pseudo.com was the first and obviously most successful, which begs another question during the dot-com boom how comes no one thought about bringing together a video sharing website instead of stupid sites like Kozmo.com, Anyway, I see other video sharing website having to invest heavily and promote the hell out of there product just to try and get half the amount of video views a day YouTube gets, Veoh for example, after Stage6 went people expected them to step up to the plate and become the new HD video viewing website even Stage6&DivX thought so but in jumps you YouTube with 'Watch In High Quality' and bang there goes Veoh's opportunity to become the home of high definition video viewing although I might say that the fact that Veoh are slightly looser with uploading TV episodes on the website than YouTube are.
Google to me are like the NewsCorp of the internet (although NewsCorp are involved with the internet i.e MySpace.com) when there is any opportunity to make money they are there at the very top cashing in all the checks.
YouTube when it first started was a simple video sharing website which contained no advertising then up jump Google with there grubby paws and steal YouTube away and turn it into a advertising marketplace and to make things worse since Google found out that if they capitalise on YouTube's ridiculous amount of user traffic that they can be making something like $440 Million dollars a year, Well good luck to the other video sharing website because YouTube is going universal.