After winning the Free Expression award[0] there just wasn't much left for her to accomplish there. https://www.theblaze.com/news/youtube-ceo-receives-free-expr...
[deleted]
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down
311–320 of 550 posts
Re: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down
#312Five days out from the Gonzalez v Google hearing. If the decision goes against Google, perhaps some will question YouTube's decision-making around recommendations.
[deleted]
Re: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down
#313Hopefully this brings back the dislike button. Intellectually I know a change of CEO shouldn't/wouldn't impact a feature like this, but I am still annoyed at its absence and find it makes YouTube substantially less useful. Edit: I understand the dislike button is still there, I misspoke. But for my purposes of seeing like/dislike ratio, it might as well not be there.
[deleted]
[deleted]
Re: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down
#314Positives: * 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…
Last I checked there were multiple direct replies to this commenting on how censorship issues weren't mentioned as negative, and now those replies are mysteriously all completely missing, which is about as ironic as you can possibly get. Comments complaining about censorship issues are themselves censored.
Re: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down
#315Thank 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.
[deleted]
Re: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down
#316Earlier quoted context omitted.
I thought YouTube did really well under Wojcicki's leadership.
Well.... not really. - Why does seemingly every channel I follow, whether it be JCS Criminal Psychology or The 8-bit Guy, have to mention the YouTube Algorithm, Content ID, Copyright Strikes, or Community Guidelines? If almost every creator is struggling and not just the fringe and edgy, you've screwed up big time. - Removal of the dislike count. Extremely unpopular decision. Also YouTube's API is still answering dis…
> If almost every creator is struggling and not just the fringe and edgy, you've screwed up big time.
Whatever algorithm YouTube uses professional uploaders will try to maximize their views, which goes by acting as the algorithm requires. In a competitive environment there is a inherent struggle.
Re: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down
#317YouTube has been riding it's content momentum for too long. It really needs a change of leadership to continue to innovate. For some searches, it's baffling that the top results are clearly intuitively wrong (e.g. showing videos where dislike to like ratio is very high, compared to clearly better alternatives that you can find if you wade through the results)
[deleted]
Re: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down
#318Positives: * 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…
[deleted]
[deleted]
Re: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down
#319Earlier quoted context omitted.
I agree, my wife and I use the YouTube Premium family plan - I don't want them to mess with it. I think it is the best deal of any monthly subscription with the possible exception of Apple+ family plan (I use Fitness+, Arcade, iCloud storage - so it is also a pretty good deal).
This is Google we're talking about, they'll randomly decide to retire Youtube completely out of the blue one day.
this wouldn't be as funny if it weren't somewhat plausible... :/
Re: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down
#320YouTube has been riding it's content momentum for too long. It really needs a change of leadership to continue to innovate. For some searches, it's baffling that the top results are clearly intuitively wrong (e.g. showing videos where dislike to like ratio is very high, compared to clearly better alternatives that you can find if you wade through the results)
[deleted]
[deleted]