>Anyhow: the point was that it’s too difficult to embed videos even if you’re willing to bear the hosting cost.That may be one reason but like the gp, I also disagree with the blog's author that it's the "underlying problem".
To further add to gp's point, Amazon AWS has:
+ tech staff with skills to deliver HTML video
+ billions to pay for self-hosting videos on its own infrastructure
+ incentives to avoid a competitor such as Google
... And yet, their official AWS re:invent page of videos points to urls on Youtube:
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/amazon-dynamodb-sessio...
Microsoft is another company with technical chops internally but they also uploaded some (not all) of their Channel9 videos to Youtube instead of self-hosting them.
Yes, the complexity of HLS and DASH is also true but it's way down the list of reasons why many people host on Youtube:
+ $0 hosting costs
+ ad monetization (and by extension, viewership statistics tools)
+ audience reach (via recommendations, etc)
A hypothetical improved <VIDEO> HTML tag does not alter the motivations in the bullet points above.
That may be one reason but like the gp, I also disagree with the blog's author that it's the "underlying problem".
To further add to gp's point, Amazon AWS has:
+ tech staff with skills to deliver HTML video
+ billions to pay for self-hosting videos on its own infrastructure
+ incentives to avoid a competitor such as Google
... And yet, their official AWS re:invent page of videos points to urls on Youtube:
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/amazon-dynamodb-sessio...
Microsoft is another company with technical chops internally but they also uploaded some (not all) of their Channel9 videos to Youtube instead of self-hosting them.
Yes, the complexity of HLS and DASH is also true but it's way down the list of reasons why many people host on Youtube:
+ $0 hosting costs
+ ad monetization (and by extension, viewership statistics tools)
+ audience reach (via recommendations, etc)
A hypothetical improved <VIDEO> HTML tag does not alter the motivations in the bullet points above.