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Technological advancements have tempted a plethora of budding actors, singers and directors online.

June 2004: Yahoo! launches the Yahoo! Videoblogging Group, a website platform for the growing community of videobloggers. Videoblogging was the natural successor to the sorts of amateur video diaries that broadcasters such as the BBC had been showcasing, for instance in the Video Nation strand, since the early 90s.

February 2005: YouTube is created by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim. It enables users to share a wide variety of video material, from short home-made videos and videoblogs to clips pirated from mainstream music, TV and film companies.

May 2005: A group of five Yahoo! Videoblogging Group employees leaves to set up blip.tv as an enhanced videoblogging platform. It encourages regular users to develop threads of serialised content rather than following the unstructured magpie ethos of the likes of YouTube. Soon after attracting new funding in 2006, it enters into a partnership agreement with CNN.

January 2006: Google launches Google Video. It struggles to hit on a coherent model - it ...

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