This is what people always seen to ignore about YouTube. It’s not just another database frontend to use generated content. That is definitely part of it, but behind that is probably the largest public facing content library on the Internet with a full video recoding infrastructure attached. YouTube is the platform for which I understand that they need to monetize.

Sure, nowadays there’s also tiktok as another big video service. But I like to think that YouTube is way bigger in most metrics.

But think about the 5 MB they saved!

I think SW Republic Commando sounds were stored in Vorbis. Back then.

Unreal Tournament also used Vorbis starting from either 2003 or 2004.