YouTube dominates TV streaming in US, per Nielsen's latest report

Post by jondwillis » Thu, Feb 22, 2024, 3:59 PM UTC

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I won’t pay for YouTube as long as they keep trying to make Shorts happen. It’s everything I dislike about the Internet in one feature. Edit: Why would this get downvoted? Do people really find value in shorts?

TikTok has a clunky Web UI (there was an experiment they accidentally rolled out for a day in 2022 to make it much better, but it was rolled back and never seen again). YT Shorts work fairly well. It also supposedly pays out to creators better than TikTok. Although I have to use `document.querySelectorAll('video').forEach(e => e.playbackRate = 2);` in my console for either service since they don't have native playbac…

Post by input_sh » Thu, Feb 22, 2024, 4:54 PM UTC

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The original founder's list was Dave Wiskus (current CEO), CGP Grey, and a guy behind Kurzgesagt, but yes, the latter two distanced themselves pretty quickly. I don't think there's a single even semi-popular edu-tainment channel that wasn't at least approached by Nebula, but of course not every creator is interested. If I had to guess why, I'd say it's a tradeoff between Patreon/Nebula. You can have both, but you can…

Youtube itself is getting so good at monetization, with more people getting Premium, that it's no longer worth it to pursue other channels at all.

Post by key_peace_pulse » Thu, Feb 22, 2024, 5:01 PM UTC

Jordan-117 wrote: post #19

I used to scoff at the idea of paying for YouTube, but I'd absolutely consider it if they had a cheaper plan that excluded YouTube Music.

Post by k8sToGo » Thu, Feb 22, 2024, 5:36 PM UTC

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If you go to the website, you can hide Shorts for 30 days. There is an X on the top right for the Shorts section. I do that and don’t feel like it’s being forced into my face anymore.

Thanks for this tip. I want to be able to do this on the YouTube apps on my kids’ devices

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Feb 22, 2024, 6:42 PM UTC

input_sh wrote: post #173

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Youtube itself is getting so good at monetization, with more people getting Premium, that it's no longer worth it to pursue other channels at all.

Sure, as long as you don't swear, play even a a couple seconds of copyrighted music, never say any of the "touchy" subjects that would earn you an info box below the video (could be anything from flat earth to covid), and a dozen of other arbitrary, constantly changing rules, YouTube is great on its own. Certainly better than any other popular platform. However a lot of channels available on Nebula also use it as a p…