Difference between revisions of "Timeline of online video"

This is a '''timeline of [[online video]]'''.

| 1995–2004 || Early days of the [[world wide web]]. Several [[Digital container format|container formats]] for streaming the first videos are released. Some sites, like [[Newgrounds]], heavily rely on these container formats to display online video.  

| 2005–2010 || Mass-streaming services like [[YouTube]] and [[Netflix]] become massively popular for streaming online video. Broadband penetration increases, allowing significant fractions of the population to stream online video. Macromedia Flash is the most popular format for displaying online video, as it is used by [[YouTube]] and many other sites.

| 2011–2016 || [[HTML5]] starts to displace Flash. [[Livestreaming]] becomes increasingly popular, especially in the form of services like [[Twitch.tv]]. Many social media startups integrate the streaming of short segments of video, like Vine and Keek. These are, in turn, integrated into the most popular services like [[Instagram]] and [[Facebook]].  

|1995 || September 5 || Technology || ESPN SportsZone streams a live radio broadcast of a baseball game between the Seattle Mariners and the New York Yankees to thousands of its subscribers worldwide using cutting-edge technology developed by a Seattle-based startup company named [[Real Networks]] – the first [[livestreaming]] event.<ref name="MyUser_The_Guardian_July_28_2016c">{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media-network/media-network-blog/2013/mar/01/history-streaming-future-connected-tv |title=A history of media streaming and the future of connected TV |newspaper=The Guardian |date=  |author= |accessdate= July 28, 2016}}</ref>

|1995 || || Technology || [[Adobe Systems|Adobe]] releases [[Shockwave Player]] for [[Netscape Navigator]], which becomes the primary format of streaming media for the late 1990s and 2000s (until it is gradually supplanted by [[HTML5]]).<ref name="MyUser_Softnavy.com_August_1_2016c">{{cite web |url=http://www.softnavy.com/app/49/shockwave |title=Adobe Shockwave Player Download Free for Windows |newspaper=Softnavy.com |date=  |author= |accessdate= August 1, 2016}}</ref>

| 1998 || Late || Technology  || [[MPEG-4]], a method of defining compression of audio and visual (AV) digital data, is introduced.<ref>{{citation|url=http://webstore.iec.ch/preview/info_isoiec14496-1%7Bed3.0%7Den.pdf |format=PDF |title=ISO/IEC 14496-1:2004&nbsp;– Third edition 2004-11-15&nbsp;– Information technology&nbsp;— Coding of audio-visual objects&nbsp;— Part 1: Systems |author=ISO/IEC |date=2004-11-15 |accessdate=2010-04-11 }}{{dead link|date=June 2016|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://mpeg.chiariglione.org/standards/mpeg-4/mpeg-4.htm |title=Overview of the MPEG-4 Standard |author=WG11 (MPEG) |date= March 2002 |accessdate=2010-04-11}}</ref><ref>{{citation |url= http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ece796/documents/MPEG4_Systems_CD_w1901.doc |format= MS Word .doc |title= Text for CD 14496-1 Systems |author=WG11 |date=1997-11-21 |accessdate= 2010-04-11}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web| url= http://mpeg.chiariglione.org/faq/mp4-sys/sys-faq-esm.htm | title = MPEG-4 Systems Elementary Stream Management (ESM) |date= July 2001 |accessdate= 2010-04-11}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web| url= http://mpeg.chiariglione.org/faq/mp4-sys/mp4-sys.htm |title=MPEG Systems (1-2-4-7) FAQ, Version 17.0 |date=July 2001 |accessdate=2010-04-11}}</ref>

|1999 || || Technology || Microsoft introduces streaming feature in [[Windows Media Player]] 6.4. It introduces the ASF file format, which allows storage of multiple video and audio tracks inside a single file. It also introduces Windows Media streaming protocols that support switching streams during broadcast. This technology is most commonly referred to as Multiple Bit Rate ASF, or simply MBR.<ref name="MyUser_Alexzambelli.com_July_31_2016c">{{cite web |url=http://alexzambelli.com/blog/2008/12/17/a-brief-history-of-multi-bitrate-streaming/ |title=A Brief History of Multi-Bitrate Streaming |newspaper=Alexzambelli.com |date=  |author= |accessdate= July 31, 2016}}</ref>

|1999 || June || Technology  || Apple introduces a streaming media format in its [[QuickTime]] 4 application.<ref name="autogenerated1">{{cite web | title=Timeline of QuickTime Updates at the Apple Museum | url=http://www.theapplemuseum.com/index.php?id=41 | accessdate=January 8, 2007}}</ref>

| 2002 || October || Technology|| [[Adaptive bit rate]] over HTTP is created by the DVD Forum at the WG1 Special Streaming group.

| 2003 || May || Technology || The On2 TrueMotion [[VP6]] codec is released.<ref>CNET News (2003-05-13) [http://news.cnet.com/On2-blows-trumpet-for-new-codec/2100-1032_3-1001331.html On2 blows trumpet for new codec], Retrieved on 2009-08-17</ref>

| 2004 || June || Products ||  [[MindGeek]] is founded as [[Too Much Media]]. Its name is changed to Manwin in 2010, and then MindGeek in October 2013. Its operations are primarily related to Internet pornography, but also include other online properties such as the comedy video website videobash.com and celebrity gossip site celebs.com.<ref name=LinkedIn>{{cite web|author1=MindGeek|title=MindGeek|url=https://www.linkedin.com/company/mindgeek|website=LinkedIn|accessdate=23 December 2014|quote=Founded 2004}}</ref><ref name=ca.manwin.com>{{cite web|title=Manwin Canada: A Leader in Web Design, IT, Web Development & SEO!|url=http://ca.manwin.com/|website=ca.manwin.com|accessdate=23 December 2014|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111107010323/http://ca.manwin.com/|archivedate=7 November 2011|quote=Established in June 2004, Manwin is an international organization, with corporate offices in Europe.}}</ref>

| 2005 || January 25 || Products || [[Google Video]] launches.<ref>[http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2005-01-25-n90.html Google Video Search Live]</ref>

|2005|| March 15||Companies||[[Dailymotion]], a French video-sharing website, is founded.<ref>Carvajal, Doreen. "[https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/21/business/worldbusiness/21iht-motion24.html Taking on the Godzilla of video-sharing sites]. " ''[[The New York Times]]''. Friday 21 March 2008. Retrieved 4 May 2011.</ref>

|2005||April 23||Companies ||[[YouTube]] opens for video uploads, and the first YouTube video uploaded on April 23, 2005 is titled Me at the zoo.<ref>{{Cite news|title=YouTube: Overnight success has sparked a backlash|author=Alleyne, Richard|work=The Daily Telegraph |location=London  | url =http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2480280/YouTube-Overnight-success-has-sparked-a-backlash.html|accessdate=January 17, 2009  | date=July 31, 2008}}</ref> Between March and July 2006, YouTube grows from 30 to 100 million views of videos per day.

| 2006 || May 14 || Companies || [[Crunchyroll]], an American website and international online community focused on video streaming East Asian media including anime, manga, drama, music, electronic entertainment, and auto racing content, is founded.<ref name="icv2">{{cite web|url=http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/13922.html|title=Crunchyroll CEO: Making Online Anime Pay|publisher=[[ICv2]]|date=2008-12-15|accessdate=2008-12-15}}</ref>

| 2006 || October 1 || Companies || [[Justin.tv]], a live-streaming service that is the parent company of Twitch, is founded by [[Justin Kan]].<ref name="JustinCB">{{cite web |url=https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/justintv#/entity |title=Justin.TV |newspaper= |date=  |author= |accessdate= June 23, 2016}}</ref>

| 2006 || September 7 || Products || Amazon introduces [[video on demand]] service [[Amazon Video]].<ref name="PR1">{{cite web|url=http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=97664&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=971365&highlight=|title=Amazon.com Investor Relations:                Press Release|work=corporate-ir.net}}</ref>

|2006 || October 9 || Mergers || Google acquires [[YouTube]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.theage.com.au/news/Business/Google-closes-A2b-YouTube-deal/2006/11/14/1163266548827.html |title=Google closes $A2b YouTube deal |work=The Age |agency=Reuters |date=November 14, 2006 |accessdate = March 3, 2007 | location=Melbourne}}</ref>

|2006 || October 31 || Companies || [[LiveLeak]], a UK-based video sharing website that lets users post and share videos (often of reality footage, politics, war, and other world events), is founded.<ref>[http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b8e_1193855061 Damn, a year already?] ''liveleak.com'', October 31, 2007</ref>  

| 2006 || December || Companies || [[Youku]], one of China's top online video and streaming service platforms, is founded.<ref>{{cite web|author=Kristen Nicole2007-11-21 06:47:07 UTC |url=http://mashable.com/2007/11/21/youku-funded/ |title=Youku Hits the Jackpot with $25M |publisher=Mashable.com |date=2007-11-21 |accessdate=2014-06-28}}</ref>

|2007 || Early || Companies ||[[PornHub]], a pornographic video sharing website, is founded by the web developer Matt Keezer as a website within the company Interhub.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nymag.com/news/features/70985/index1.html|title=The Geek-Kings of Smut|website=New York|accessdate=22 December 2014}}</ref>

| 2007 || September || Companies || [[Vevo]] is founded. It offers music videos from two of the "big three" major record labels, Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment.<ref>{{cite news|title=Queen Rania calls on music world to support 1GOAL education campaign |url=http://www.tradingmarkets.com/.site/news/Stock%20News/2716825/ |date=December 10, 2009 |accessdate=September 3, 2015 |deadurl=yes }}</ref>

| 2007 || September 5 || Technology || Microsoft introduces [[Microsoft Silverlight]], an application framework for writing and running rich Internet applications, similar to Adobe Flash.<ref name="Architecture">{{cite web |url=http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb404713.aspx

| 2008 || February 25 || Products || [[DivX]] announces that it will shut down [[Stage6]],<ref>{{cite news |url=http://investors.divx.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=295763

| 2008 || March 10 || Technology || Macromedia Flash moves to the [[H.264]] encoding codec.<ref name="MyUser_Adobe.com_July_31_2016c">{{cite web |url=http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/hd_video_flash_player.html |title=Exploring Flash Player support for high-definition H.264 video and AAC audio |newspaper=Adobe.com |date=  |author= |accessdate= July 31, 2016}}</ref>

| 2008 || March 12 || Companies || [[Hulu]], an [[online streaming]] service for TV/movies, launches for public access in the United States.<ref name="MyUser_Blog.hulu.com_May_30_2016c">{{cite web |url=http://blog.hulu.com/2008/03/12/welcome-to-hulu/ |title=Welcome to Hulu « The Hulu Blog |newspaper=Blog.hulu.com |date=  |author= |accessdate= May 30, 2016}}</ref>

| 2010 || March || Acquisitions || [[PornHub]] is purchased by [[Fabian Thylmann]] as part of the [[MindGeek|Manwin]] conglomerate, now known as MindGeek.<ref name="Buse">{{Cite news | first = Uwe | last = Buse | title = Harnessing the Internet: The German Porn King's Revolutionary Model | work = [[der Spiegel]] | date = 20 December 2012 | url = http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/fabian-thylmann-and-his-revolutionary-porn-business-model-a-873802-2.html }}</ref>

| 2010 || April 22 || Companies || [[iQiyi]], an online video platform based in Beijing, China launches.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Baidu {{!}} Press Releases|url = http://ir.baidu.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=188488&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1816090|website = ir.baidu.com|accessdate = 2015-12-29}}</ref>

| 2010 || December || Companies || [[Viki (website)|Viki]], an international video website offering TV shows, movies, and other premium content, is founded and gets [[Series A]] round funding.<ref name="MyUser_Https:_July_31_2016c">{{cite web |url=https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/viki#/entity |title=Viki |newspaper=Crunchbase |date=  |author= |accessdate= July 31, 2016}}</ref>

| 2011 || January || Technology || [[Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP]] – which enables high quality streaming of media content over the Internet delivered from conventional HTTP web servers – becomes a draft international standard.<ref>[http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=57623 ISO/IEC DIS 23009-1.2 Dynamic adaptive streaming over HTTP (DASH)]</ref> The MPEG-DASH standard is published as [http://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/c057623_ISO_IEC_23009-1_2012.zip ISO/IEC 23009-1:2012] in April, 2012.

| 2011 || April || Companies || [[Vudu]] announces the launch of its [[online streaming]] service.<ref name="Vudu ">{{cite web |url=https://www.thewrap.com/vudu-launches-streaming-service-26373/ |title=Vudu Launches Streaming Service |newspaper=|date=  |author= |accessdate= May 30, 2016}}</ref>

| 2011 || May || Acquisitions || Manwin/[[MindGeek]] acquires the pornographic video sharing website [[YouPorn]].<ref name="Manwin Acquires YouPorn.com">{{cite web|title=Manwin Acquires YouPorn.com|url=http://business.avn.com/articles/technology/Manwin-Acquires-YouPorn-com-435351.html|website=AVN|accessdate=20 December 2014|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140402042905/http://business.avn.com/articles/technology/Manwin-Acquires-YouPorn-com-435351.html|archivedate=2 April 2014|date=10 May 2011}}</ref>

| 2011 || June 6 || Companies  || [[Justin.tv]] spins off its gaming division as [[Twitch.tv]], which officially launches in public beta.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://thenextweb.com/media/2011/06/06/twitchtv-justin-tvs-killer-new-esports-project/ |title=Twitch TV: Justin.tv's killer new esports project |first=Alex|last=Wilhelm |date=June 6, 2011 |publisher=The Next Web}}</ref>

| 2011 || July || Companies || [[Keek]] – a free online social networking service that allows its users to upload video status updates, which are called "keeks" – launches.<ref name="FP Teach Desk - 2013">{{cite web| last = Dobby  | first = Christine | title = Toronto's Keek raises $18M for social video networking platform | url=http://business.financialpost.com/2013/01/17/torontos-keek-raises-18m-for-social-video-networking-platform/ | accessdate = January 17, 2012}}</ref>

| 2012 || January 29 || Companies || [[Megaupload]] (and Megavideo) are shut down by the feds.<ref name="MyUser_Ew.com_July_31_2016c">{{cite web |url=http://www.ew.com/article/2012/01/19/megaupload-megavideo-shut-down-fbi |title=Megaupload (and Megavideo) shut down by the Feds |newspaper=Ew.com |date=  |author= |accessdate= July 31, 2016}}</ref>

| 2012 || June || Companies || [[Vine (service)|Vine]], a short-form video sharing service where users can share six-second-long looping video clips, is founded by Dom Hofmann, Rus Yusupov, and Colin Kroll.<ref name="twitter-intro">{{cite web|last=Sippey |first=Michael |url=https://blog.twitter.com/2013/vine-new-way-share-video |title=Vine: A new way to share video |publisher=Twitter |work=Twitter Blog |date=January 24, 2013 |accessdate=July 25, 2013}}</ref><ref name="Vine Launch Tech Crunch">{{cite web |last=Crook |first=Jordan |date=January 24, 2013 |title= Twitter's 6-Second Video Sharing App, Vine, Goes Live In The App Store |url= http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/24/twitters-video-sharing-app-vine-goes-live-in-the-app-store/|work=TechCrunch |accessdate=January 26, 2013}}</ref>

| 2012 || December || Companies || [[Snapchat]] adds the ability to send video snaps in addition to photos.<ref>J.J. Colao, [http://www.forbes.com/sites/jjcolao/2012/12/14/snapchat-adds-video-now-seeing-50-million-photos-a-day/ "Snapchat Adds Video, Now Seeing 50 Million Photos A Day"], ''Forbes'', Dec 14, 2012. Retrieved May 16, 2016.</ref>

| 2015 || January 27 || Products || [[YouTube]] drops Flash for [[HTML5]] video as default.<ref name="MyUser_Theverge.com_July_31_2016c">{{cite web |url=http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/27/7926001/youtube-drops-flash-for-html5-video-default |title=YouTube drops Flash for HTML5 video as default |newspaper=Theverge.com |date=  |author= |accessdate= July 31, 2016}}</ref>

| 2015 || March || Companies || [[Periscope (app)|Periscope]], a live video streaming app for iOS and Android developed by Kayvon Beykpour and Joe Bernstein is launched (and acquired by Twitter before its launch).<ref>{{cite web | title = What it's like to sell your startup for ~$120 million before it's even been launched: Meet Twitter's new prized possession, Periscope | last = Shontell | first = Alyson | work = Business Insider | date = 26 March 2015 | accessdate = 26 March 2015 | url = http://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-periscope-and-why-twitter-bought-it-2015-3 }}</ref>

| 2015 || May || Companies || [[Meerkat (app)|Meerkat]], a mobile app that enables users to broadcast live video streaming through their mobile device, releases its app for both [[iOS]] and [[Android (operating system)|Android]].<ref name="MyUser_Businessinsider.com_July_31_2016c">{{cite web |url=http://www.businessinsider.com/meerkat-raises-12-million-2015-3 |title=Meerkat raises $12 million - Business Insider |newspaper=Businessinsider.com |date=  |author= |accessdate= July 31, 2016}}</ref>

| 2016 || January || Companies || Facebook launches livestreaming to everyone with [[Facebook Live]].<ref name="MyUser_Wired.com_July_31_2016c">{{cite web |url=https://www.wired.com/2016/01/facebook-livestreaming-opens-up-to-everyone-with-an-iphone/ |title=Facebook Livestreaming Opens Up to Everyone With an iPhone |newspaper=Wired.com |date=  |author= |accessdate= July 31, 2016}}</ref>

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