The first video I ever watched was on a Beta system because everyone thought Beta was the way but then it ended up being video so we backed the wrong horse.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
YouTube is found footage. It's here to stay, and people will always come up with new concepts that will make sense for found footage.
The general reactions were that the video was either not going to load, or be painfully slow to load, or would require a plug-in users didn't have. YouTube changed that, because it just works.
We started on April 1, 2003. So long ago, you couldn't watch video in a web browser; you had to watch it in a different player, like in Quicktime player or something like that.
The first videos I uploaded on my own personal channel were videos of dogs.
I was very unfamiliar with YouTube; I thought it was the place for dog and cat videos.
When I posted my first video, I remember it hit 700 views after a week, and I was like, 'Oh my God, this is amazing.' I was over the moon.
When we started out doing YouTube videos, I think we were very, very early on in terms of people doing a behind-the-scenes component.
We're trying to evolve a lot away from YouTube because YouTube is awesome - they have a huge audience, and we started there - but then you're at the mercy of their algorithms a lot, too. They can change anything, and it's really up to them, and you can't say anything about it.
YouTube is a platform, a distribution vehicle.
When I was a teenager there was no video in my country. Betamax came to Mexico very slowly.