Youtube finally came along to check all of those boxes, and as a result, it has taken over the digital video market and almost completely dominates the space.īut Youtube comes with a basic, obvious, and fairly major flaw: it’s only useful with a high-speed internet connection. Many people had been claiming that this change was just around the corner since the first days of the internet, but we needed a combination of high-speed internet access, plenty of content, and a stable, reliable platform to make it a success. It hardly seems possible, but even as recently as 10 years ago, nobody would have believed that online video was a serious challenge to the supremacy of broadcast television.
