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YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down
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Re: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down
#32> Wojcicki, who joined Alphabet nearly 25 years ago… I’m not a journalist, but that doesn’t sound right.
Yes, Alphabet was created less than 8 years ago. She probably joined Google.
Re: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down
#33- increasingly ignores your search keywords, instead shoving unrelated stuff at you - removed ability to sort videos by date - removed dislikes what else.....youtube UX has being getting worse for a few years.
Worse for whom? Everything you listed is favourable for cutting costs and pleasing/attracting advertisers[1]. There are not a lot of alternatives to YouTube, certainly nothing with the same size of audience, so squeezing the users and creators to improve revenue makes business sense.
YouTube users are the product being sold, not the customers.
[1] The recent crackdown on swearing falls in the same category.
Re: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down
#34- increasingly ignores your search keywords, instead shoving unrelated stuff at you - removed ability to sort videos by date - removed dislikes what else.....youtube UX has being getting worse for a few years.
I've no use for the dislike button in YouTube ("never show me this channel again" is more useful) but its search/sort functions are getting increasingly broken.
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#35We can all hate Youtube here for sure but when you listen to for example Linus from LTT he is very adamant that while youtube does have it's fair share of problems, when it comes to compensating creators fairly on their platform, they are much better than almost all others.
And I personally enjoy Youtube very much. So much great content for free. If I need to learn about something i find myself looking into youtube first quite often.
Re: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down
#36I believe it is related to this movement to subpoena big tech about “collusion with government” https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/15/jim-jordan-subpoenas-alphabe...
Either she is being blamed, or she is deeply guilty and wants to try to avoid the publicity, or they anticipate this will become extremely ugly.
Or sundar is blaming her for lining him up for a firing squad.
Or she is a liability due to her past work.
Regardless, it seems like she is leaving because what she had to do to make the government happy previously is now going to be used against Google.
Someone else mentioned the theory that she might be the best Sundar replacement. Maybe she found out it’s not her or Sundar is eliminating competition here.
Re: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down
#37I always saw her as one of the best candidates to become the Twitter CEO. She has the industry credence, and the experience of leading and making both google ads and YouTube successful (the two parts that Twitter needs help with).
I wonder if Elon Musk would notice.
Re: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down
#38- increasingly ignores your search keywords, instead shoving unrelated stuff at you - removed ability to sort videos by date - removed dislikes what else.....youtube UX has being getting worse for a few years.
You can still sort a search by date...
Re: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down
#39So much hate for her on all fronts, yet she made the most rewarding media platform today on the internet. Any creator or consumer who has half a brain should realize the magnitude of the feat and how unobvious it is that YouTube exists as it does today.