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

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

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Post by Scoundreller »

dacryn wrote: post #27
iancmceachern wrote: post #3

It's replaced what was traditional TV in our home. We watch movies, and youtube as if it were tv. Old TV is now either 24 hour garbage news, reality shows, or similar nonesense.

There are two modes of watching TV in my opinion: intentional and casual Intentional: look for a certain show/movie, e.g. the weekly episode of House MD, Lost, Friends, HBO, ... -> This is the streaming war between Netflix, HBO, Disney, ... Casual: You turn on the tv with the aim to just browse around and relax, and get something accidentally interesting/amusing -> Youtube is king and more or less the only option her…

The funny thing is, a casual viewer might be more interested in the ads/promoted products because they’re bored and looking for something to do.

On a certain movie/show, you can’t be bothered to divert your attention: you’re committed to the show.

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

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Post by elcritch »

lynx23 wrote: post #59
elcritch wrote: post #10

For now that is. I sort of hope someone more motivated than myself makes a timer for how long before the crappification* of YouTube begins now that it appears MBAs will be taking over. The new CEO probably has some gumption, but it seems inevitable. * of course this is subjective, but generally I can find lots of great YouTube content. I can buy premium to avoid the ads and become the client, not the product. 1: http…

The crappification of YouTube has already begon with Shorts and the inability to disable this completely useless content.

Eh, I like some of the shorts. I just scroll by them when I'm not.

I'm thinking about much deeper enshitification like nickel-and-diming content creators until they all leave. Getting rid of premium or adding ads to it, etc. Adding even more ads for regular users.

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

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Post by elcritch »

yieldcrv wrote: post #22

I’m on the verge of getting Youtube Premium I didn't really like their “annoyance” style of advertising that, but competitors got worse There are no DJ mixes on Soundcloud or Spotify any longer, and other platforms are a combination of unused or no mobile app so I’ll go ahead and get rid of the ads now for just that, but along with everything else on youtube

You also get Youtube Music with premium. That's pretty nice. It's not as good at playlists as Spotify, etc, but it's got most music you wanna listen to.

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

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Post by Dylan16807 »

benatkin wrote: post #178
shiroiushi wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Perhaps not: I think your link is talking about "short movies" or "short films". YouTube's Shorts are "short videos". Movies (films) and videos are not the same thing: movies/films are a type of video, but there are many other types of video that are not movies, most notably TV shows, and also "music videos", but really anything that involves a moving picture. A "movie" (or to some, "film") these days is commonly mea…

The term "shorts" is also part of that and is what YouTube was trying to co-opt. In the link you can clearly see the word "shorts" being used to refer to these. Here's one from 2010: https://thescorecardreview.com/tsr/review/film-reviews/2010/...

That's just context allowing for abbreviation. "Shorts" has always meant different things in different contexts.

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

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Post by harryquach »

subtra3t wrote: post #31
harryquach wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same in our house. Most youtube channels we watch have weekly releases which we watch similar to traditional TV episode releases.

If you don't mind sharing, what YT channels do you typically watch?

I enjoy:

- BeardMeatsFood (https://www.youtube.com/beardmeatsfood)

- Johnny Harris (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmGSJVG3mCRXVOP4yZrU1Dw

- RealLifeLore (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP5tjEmvPItGyLhmjdwP7Ww)

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

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Post by barryrandall »

ishanAhuja wrote: post #43

Stunning that they don't invest more in their TV apps, especially the Apple TV app. Their single-row horizontal scroll UI is so frustrating.

The YouTube app is one of the best steaming apps available on Apple TV...because it's not constantly signing you out.

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

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Post by barryrandall »

electriclove wrote: post #16

I can’t stand how they shove YouTube Shorts down our throats and don’t give us a way to disable that. I am a huge fan of YouTube overall and have been happy to pay to have an ad-free experience

The killer app for Shorts is the ability to view Tik Tok videos without having to directly engage with Tik Tok.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

lynx23 wrote: post #109
bowsamic wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’ve learnt about a lot of things through shorts. It’s not just crap

Mind naming some positive examples? All I get is right-wing political propaganda and "Whatever"-podcast antimodernwomen crap. I would pay to get rid of this blatant negativity.

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

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Post by krisoft »

alkonaut wrote: post #150
krisoft wrote: post #147

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Try yourself: think of a TV show that was big in the last 10 years, then search for it on YouTube. I did. I thought of "Breaking Bad". Searched for it. There are indeed many reviews and shorts, and on the side of the search result in a separate box I see the official show with a big "buy" button. Apparently I can buy the first season for £10.49. > In the off chance that the actual content of the show is actually on…

When I look at CNN’s or BBC’s latest it’s not tv-broadcasts it’s just uncutated clips. To use that for TV replacement seems painful. (If by TV we mean watching something on a big screen without having to interact with it for a long while). The only way to watch clips that way would be to queue up a playlist of say ten 3 minute news bites but that still doesn’t tell me anything about their relative importance. So what…

> So what I’m looking for is the 30 minute broadcast where these clips are used, where a less important story (objectively! I don’t want personal content that defeats the point!) gets perhaps broadcast cut down to 10 seconds while the big headline clip gets the full 3 minutes.

Maybe the solution simply is that what you want is not youtube? Horses for courses. If broadcast TV fits exactly what you desire then that is what you should watch. Ain’t nothing wrong with that.

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Post by huytersd »

throwitaway222 wrote: post #9

Remember when everyone laughed at google for buying them for a billion

Who knew something as basic as streaming videos would basically be a monopoly. It makes sense in hindsight with all the expensive storage required. It’s still mind boggling that you could literally upload video to them 24/7 and they will host it for free.
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