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YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down

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Re: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down

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Post by doh »

gjsman-1000 wrote: post #248
pradn wrote: post #202

Positives: * Presided over a vast increase in revenue, from $4 to $29 billion * Steered the ship through a number of content controversies * Anecdotally, the brand value of YouTube remains good * YouTube Premium seems to have good uptake * Presided over enormous cost savings with custom encoder hardware * Few major technical outages, good streaming performance generally * Relationships with advertisers and content cr…

Just discovered something very interesting: She is resigning one day after Google received a subpoena from the U.S. House of Representatives demanding answers to questions on censorship of conservative voices, and specifically on content moderation decisions. Yes, just yesterday. Subpoena to resignation. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/us-republicans-subpoena... https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/02/…

It’s a coincidence. This had to be in works for months (or something substantial had to go down). Also, they get subpoenaed all the time across various committees.

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Post by Hikikomori »

voydik wrote: post #216
Workaccount2 wrote: post #198

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The main criticism I see with YouTube is that it has too many ads, and the idea of paying for youtube is laughable. Basically, it's users are very entitled. Edit: I have had premium since day 1, I'm speaking about others.

Paying for YouTube Premium has been the best $15/month I've ever spent. What's laughable is not paying for it. It's a good model that works.

There's premium lite for like half the price as well.

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Post by joshuamorton »

gjsman-1000 wrote: post #248
pradn wrote: post #202

Positives: * Presided over a vast increase in revenue, from $4 to $29 billion * Steered the ship through a number of content controversies * Anecdotally, the brand value of YouTube remains good * YouTube Premium seems to have good uptake * Presided over enormous cost savings with custom encoder hardware * Few major technical outages, good streaming performance generally * Relationships with advertisers and content cr…

Just discovered something very interesting: She is resigning one day after Google received a subpoena from the U.S. House of Representatives demanding answers to questions on censorship of conservative voices, and specifically on content moderation decisions. Yes, just yesterday. Subpoena to resignation. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/us-republicans-subpoena... https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/02/…

She wasn't subpoenaed, and as a CEO of a multinational, there is always recent bad press you could point to that makes it a "bad time" to resign.

Googling "republicans subpoena sundar" returns similar articles from 2020 and 2018 (such as https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/22/senate-republicans-vote-to-s... and https://theprint.in/india/governance/google-ceo-sundar-picha...).

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Post by gowld »

SketchySeaBeast wrote: post #115
sadjad wrote: post #75

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The button is still there, you just don't see the number of dislikes without a plugin.

Is it? I see in the network requests where the "likes" button data is returned, but not the dislikes. It's possible I just can't find it though - there's a lot of data in a lot of shapes.

The dislike count is from an external tracker, not YouTube's own data.

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Post by tehwebguy »

pradn wrote: post #202

Positives: * Presided over a vast increase in revenue, from $4 to $29 billion * Steered the ship through a number of content controversies * Anecdotally, the brand value of YouTube remains good * YouTube Premium seems to have good uptake * Presided over enormous cost savings with custom encoder hardware * Few major technical outages, good streaming performance generally * Relationships with advertisers and content cr…

* Missed out on stand up comedy!

Netflix became the comedy powerhouse by, most likely, just looking at what unofficial standup uploads had the most views on YouTube and making appropriate offers.

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Post by gowld »

ciberado wrote: post #79
kerpotgh wrote: post #44

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Completely disagree. Getting rid of that button has significantly cleaned up the associated comments sections. I’ve also noticed a general improvement in my recommendations. Great move imo.

Can anyone please explain me why the parent comment deserves being voted down?

It's a bizarre assertion without evidence.

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Post by 40acres »

pradn wrote: post #202

Positives: * Presided over a vast increase in revenue, from $4 to $29 billion * Steered the ship through a number of content controversies * Anecdotally, the brand value of YouTube remains good * YouTube Premium seems to have good uptake * Presided over enormous cost savings with custom encoder hardware * Few major technical outages, good streaming performance generally * Relationships with advertisers and content cr…

Funnily enough I really like YouTube shorts. A lot of Tiktokers cross post and because of this I haven’t found a reason to download TikTok.

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Post by chucksta »

Workaccount2 wrote: post #198
mdgrech23 wrote: post #185

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yea I'm a daily users of YT. Pay for premium. Don't produce. Only consume. Probably their ideal customer and I think the app is great. No idea what people are bitching about.

The main criticism I see with YouTube is that it has too many ads, and the idea of paying for youtube is laughable. Basically, it's users are very entitled. Edit: I have had premium since day 1, I'm speaking about others.

A major benefit of paying for it is easily supporting more creators without directly donating. They get pittance for ad rolls but substantially more for premium views.

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Post by the_af »

wankle wrote: post #149
the_af wrote: post #34

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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.

Just like the shorts panel, they will show them again. It's inevitable.

Ah, the shorts panel. A terrible, terrible idea I always close in the hopes YouTube gets the message. Thanks for reminding me!
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