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" Flash Video made platform sites like YouTube possible as well, and helped kick-start the online video revolution. "
YouTube
Possible
Revolution
" I feel like we always kept our core philosophy of making content that we would wanna watch, and there's definitely a different scale we are offering that at today. "
Content
Today
Philosophy
" If somebody's in the community doing cool stuff, we'll hire them. "
Cool
Hire
Somebody
" If we got $100 million dollars to make a movie, I don't know if we should be making a $100 million dollar movie our first time out. "
Time
Dollar
Know
" I gotta admit, when you've been doing this a long time, going out to the audience and asking for them to help out with crowdfunding, it's a gut check. You never know how that's gonna turn out. Luckily for us, it turned out well. "
Long
You
Time
" I lived a significant portion of my life before the Internet and smart phones. "
Smart
Phones
My Life
" In the entertainment industry, careers don't last very long - and online, careers last an even shorter amount of time. "
Entertainment
Time
Online
" I started one of the first online video companies way back in 2003. "
Video
Started
First
" I think, ultimately, the story of Rooster Teeth is going to be one of longevity. "
Teeth
Going
Story
" People think that if you get a lot of views, the ad truck just shows up at your front door. That's just not true. "
Door
People
You
" Rooster Teeth has always had a big following in the gamer community, and we are lifelong gamers ourselves. "
Gamers
Teeth
Gamer
" 'The Amazing Race' has always been the gold standard of reality television to me. It's smart, it's funny, and it's entertaining as hell. "
Funny
Me
Reality
" The big difference between us and other people who produce content is that we started doing this to make things that we wanted to make. "
Difference
Content
Doing
" The good thing about feature films is that the budgets tend to scale. "
Feature
Good
Scale
" The initial plan for Rooster Teeth is really different from the initial plan for the group, because we started as a group that was making one show: 'Red vs. Blue.' "
Blue
Red
Teeth
" The moment we put up the PayPal button, some guy donated $300. That's when we realized that if you give somebody a chance to support something on the Internet, they'll do it. "
Chance
Moment
Support
" Usually, YouTube channels are named after the person that you see on camera... or in the case of ours, it could have been the show, but we didn't even name the company 'Red vs. Blue.' We named it something else to give people the idea that we were going to be doing more than that. "
Name
Blue
Camera
" We had seen the way the print industry had been disrupted; we'd seen how the audio industry got disrupted, so it just seemed like a natural progression that video was next. We thought we were late to the game in 2003. "
Game
Thought
Natural
" We recognize that the whole world is kind of moving in this direction to digital distribution, but at the same time, there are still people who only watch movies in a movie theater, and there are some people who only watch certain programs on television or certain things on Netflix. "
People
World
Direction
" We started about three years before YouTube existed, so we had to host all the videos on our own servers at a co-location facility. When we got so many hits on our first few videos, and we estimated our bandwidth bill was going to be about $12,000 a month, we knew that we had to establish a business model ASAP. "
Own
YouTube
Three
" We started on April 1, 2003. So long ago, you couldn't watch video in a web browser; you had to watch it in a different player, like in Quicktime player or something like that. "
Watch
Long
Web
" We've always had a roadmap to feature filmmaking, and making a feature film could have been three or four years away for us. But crowdfunding helped us get there in a year, and it allowed us to take a much bigger step. "
Film
Filmmaking
Step
" We wanted to make movies back in college before Rooster Teeth. Our roots have always been in feature filmmaking, and we've always wanted to go back to it. "
College
Filmmaking
Movies
" When Geoff Ramsey and Jack Pattillo started 'Achievement Hunter,' we expanded heavily into 'let's play'-style gaming videos and have since expanded with a massive roster of gaming talent and multiple channels dedicated just to gaming videos. "
Gaming
Started
Talent
" When we first started, everything was animated, everything was comedy, and there was really nothing that was longer than about two minutes, because that's all audiences would watch. "
Watch
Everything
Comedy
" YouTube's algorithm doesn't know what's going on in the world. "
Going
YouTube
World
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