YouTube turns five
YouTube just turned five!YouTube.com
Yesterday I was doing something as oldschool as watching a TV drama! I was well caught up in the action and then: “To be continued…” ARGHHH. What’s going on? Where’s the next episode? Gotta go on youtube and try to find the next episode… Yeah, I know that if it was there, it’s probably not legal and I knew that it wasn’t because I was for the same broadcasting-network that produced the drama series.
But then I started thinking. Have YouTube changed the way we look at television? Have we become too impatient to follow a TV drama in the traditional way? “To be continued…” usually means that you have to spend 10-30 seconds looking for the next episode. YouTube have changed things around in many ways, but I think this is one of the biggest changes (and maybe an understated change) that they have played part in. And of course made us all addicted to videos with kittens and puppies.
Happy B’day YouTube! Can’t wait to see how the media-picture looks like in another five years.