An event or moment · 2005 · Live
YouTube launches
Uploads become trivially cheap and the audience begins to attach to individuals rather than channels.
Attachment shifts from institutions to people at exactly the point the distribution cost goes to zero. The broadcaster's ten-year relationship with a channel becomes a viewer's ten-year relationship with a face.
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