How come we adopt modern video formats quickly but images are stuck in ancient formats?

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We’ve moved from AVC to HEVC and VP9 relatively quickly, but for some reason images are stuck in JPEG, PNG, and GIF despite newer formats like JPEG2000 and HEIC having been around for years? Videos are just images displayed very quickly, shouldn’t the adoption pace of image/video formats be similar?

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Videos are huge so a theoretical 10% improvement in size is a big deal. Pictures are tiny so nobody cares if you can save a few kb.

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