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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 Mountain_Skies »

strgrd wrote: post #145
rolobio wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How can you tell when a video contains something misleading? For example, I struggle to find quality DIY videos without the dislikes warning me away. Dislikes are a great way for the community to clean house.

same experience trying to find videos that answer a technical question - there's no immediate gauge on whether or not the video's useful, and it's easy (and often automatic on YouTube's part) to hide any comments with a negative sentiment

Sure, we all got fucked by that but just think of the political porn addicts who now get to have their feelings protected. Ensuring the integrity of their ideological bubbles is much more important than preventing videos with dangerous instructions in them from being promoted.

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Post by posharma »

enneff wrote: post #155
posharma wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

* There's absolutely nothing we could do to influence YouTube's leadership changes. * There's very little you can do to influence changes in the product YouTube as well. * There's very little we know about the internals of upper C-level leadership changes. Speculating is an utter waste of time. I don't see a point. For me this news was just another passable piece of information. Meh! Definitely not HN front-page wort…

If speculating is a waste of time then this sub-thread is spectacularly pointless (and against HN guidelines btw). Think before you post.

Care to elaborate how I violated the HN guidelines?

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Post by IshKebab »

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…

I wouldn't be so sure about TikTok. YouTube Shorts seems to be quite good and popular.

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Post by labrador »

thenaturalist wrote: post #398
labrador wrote: post #147

YouTube for the things I enjoy has improved dramatically because the comment section is vastly improved. Everyone used to use YouTube comments as an example of a comment section dumpster fire, but they fixed it. I've seen the recommendations get better then worse then better again as they tweaked the algorithms. Right now it's better than it's ever been. Again, for me. One complaint: I like to upload interesting clip…

> I've seen the recommendations get better then worse then better again as they tweaked the algorithms. Right now it's better than it's ever been. Again, for me. Teach me your secret to receiving good recos. The bad quality of recos is the total downturner for me. Nothing, absolutely nothing interesting for months. All that's being recommended is totally generic high view stuff, not at all related to my channels or c…

To my knowledge no one outside of YouTube has ever sat down to analyze the recommendation engine and figure out how to use it better. I mark things as "not interested" a lot. I also "like" videos. Maybe that's the difference.

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Post by johnnyanmac »

jahsome wrote: post #210
labrador wrote: post #184

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I don't see that on the videos I watch. For example, this section from a song I recently listened to. Very nice comments. The Beatles - Within You Without You https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsffxGyY4ck Do you see a bunch of spam comments? Maybe my ad blocker is blocking them?

I think the targets for the spammers are are generally influencers/solo creators. The spammers create imposter profiles to announce phony giveaways, or otherwise appeal to the creators' fan base.

Yup, I watch a lot of critic channels and gaming playthroughs and it's gotten obnoxious. I try to report a dozen but it's surprising they stay up to begin with. That seems like anti-spam 101, don't paste the same message with a suspicious link everywhere (even if it's using 70 burner accounts).

Some even try to impersonate the creator, using some weird V to pretend to be a checkmark.

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Post by johnnyanmac »

xnx wrote: post #229
game_the0ry wrote: post #182

I was big time addicted to youtube for a while starting around 2010, mostly bc the recommended videos were so good and content that was uploaded was more raw and silly then now. But at some point the recommendations got really bad, so much so that it made it a lot less enjoyable. I miss those days.

10 minute minimum length for monetization killed short good content. There's still good content, but it doesnt respect your time.

ironically enough Patreon brought it back a bit. At least for the biggest animators and short form creators. YT is a great advertising platform for certain channels and kinds of content.

YT shorts I guess is their solution to that... Still not a big fan and I hear the rates paid to yourubers is horrible.

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Post by lvl102 »

robk wrote: post #175
lvl102 wrote: post #118

She quite literally got this far because of family. Geez I wonder why Youtube remains one of the most underperforming media assets. Edit: SV is full of nepotism.

Not true. Her sister met Sergey because they were in her garage. She got the job fair and square.

This is like saying Ron Wayne should run the freaking Mac division because he was there first. She’s just not that smart. She only got around on her dad’s legacy prior to Google. She added zero value to Youtube.

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Post by johnnyanmac »

esel2k wrote: post #382

Reading through the comments the audience seems very split between lovers and haters. At the end Susan managed to have a product on the market that was number 1 in its category, created revenue and has survived for so long. I think she deserve a fair amount of respect and acknowledgement, ad I have not seen any other platform with that track record (yep no time for envy, just hard facts).

Maybe I need to read more, but I have yet to hear a positive comment, just neutral "nothing will really change" sorts of comments.

I subscribe to that thought. One CEO isn't doing as much damage to a product this big as people thought. The dislike feature isn't coming back nor any other engineering feature that affected users.

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Post by runevault »

jahsome wrote: post #210
labrador wrote: post #184

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't see that on the videos I watch. For example, this section from a song I recently listened to. Very nice comments. The Beatles - Within You Without You https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsffxGyY4ck Do you see a bunch of spam comments? Maybe my ad blocker is blocking them?

I think the targets for the spammers are are generally influencers/solo creators. The spammers create imposter profiles to announce phony giveaways, or otherwise appeal to the creators' fan base.

I see it on sports content too and not just solo. Feel like not long ago I saw the garbage on ESPN video comments but I don't pay much attention of late so maybe they went away?

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Post by haolez »

wslh wrote: post #361
haolez wrote: post #260

Thank you, Susan, for (maybe?) being responsible for the only case in Big Tech where you can actually pay to not be the product yourself. YouTube Premium is awesome.

Well, you continue to be a product delivering a lot of metrics to the platform beyond the ads you don't see, surely you are optimizing others ads. Not saying YouTube Premium is awesome, though.

Yes, but if they eventually get more revenue from this than ads, the incentives will align more with the user.

It's not likely to happen, but it's not too far fetched either.

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