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YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down

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Post by jedberg »

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.

Seriously. I've seen videos with two minutes of very interesting content and 8 minutes of fluff. It's so frustrating.

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Post by delecti »

ericsoderstrom wrote: post #365
joegahona wrote: post #56

I'm nervous about this. YouTube Premium is my favorite and most-used product. As long as ads stay gone and my grandfathered price doesn't change, I'm a very happy user.

Looks like youtube premium just gives you no ads and allows for video downloads. Which you already can get using ublock and youtube-dl if you're watching from a computer. People who are big fans of youtube premium is it because you're using youtube mostly on mobile device, or is there some other advantage here I'm missing?

It gives me no ads on mobile (both OSs), PC browser (without worrying about pre-roll or banner ads sneaking through a filter that breaks), Chromecast (without dealing with a pi-hole), and the knowledge that my spouse isn't having to deal with ads either (she wouldn't mind enough otherwise to deal with extensions), plus downloads on all those platforms, and background play without using an unofficial app. And it does that all while giving a bigger cut of money to people who make the videos than they would get even if I watched the ads.

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Post by dzonga »

this should've the person to get the reigns at google and run google.

however, they got a chrome pm as ceo. and now the company is floundering.

if the youtube CEO made a billion in remuneration, it will be well deserved compared to say some CEO / CPO's eg the recent Coinbase CPO or Mozilla CEO.

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Post by addaon »

taberiand wrote: post #364
addaon wrote: post #349

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes. It is a somewhat-less-bad form of even more advertising. If you think paying to avoid some advertising is reasonable, why is paying more to avoid more advertising unreasonable?

Frequently you can pay more to individual YouTubers for that service, many have Patreon or other methods of providing early ad free versions of their content.

Yes. This is a very, very good answer when it's available as an option.

I do think, though, that if the best answer to "YouTube doesn't let me do " is "pay an alternate service provider instead," it might suggest a market opportunity for YouTube to provide the same service with much less friction.

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Post by lackbeard »

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…

> YouTube Originals flopped

Maybe as a whole, but Cobra Kai was excellent and very popular!

Also, in the long-run, will having "missed" streaming & shorts necessarily be a bad thing? Time will tell.

I wish they never introduced shorts. Why do all platforms need to be everything to everyone? Why can't they focus on just being the best platform for user-created long-form video? I probably know the answer, but it makes me sad that that's the reality we live in.

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Post by joegahona »

ericsoderstrom wrote: post #365
joegahona wrote: post #56

I'm nervous about this. YouTube Premium is my favorite and most-used product. As long as ads stay gone and my grandfathered price doesn't change, I'm a very happy user.

Looks like youtube premium just gives you no ads and allows for video downloads. Which you already can get using ublock and youtube-dl if you're watching from a computer. People who are big fans of youtube premium is it because you're using youtube mostly on mobile device, or is there some other advantage here I'm missing?

Downloads and no ads on my mobile device (so I can listen while running) and on Roku on my TV. It also allows you to play videos with the phone screen off, which I don't think the free plan does.

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Post by Keyframe »

josteink wrote: post #304
dahfizz wrote: post #166

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I pay for youtube premium for ad-free youtube and to support creators automatically. Youtube music is not great, but its "free" to me.

That’s literally it. It’s probably inferior to both Spotify and Apple Music, but if you’re going to pay for YouTube premium anyway and are able to endure the weird UI… Then it might save you a small monthly fee you’d otherwise pay to competing services. It’d never survive in the market as it’s own service, and it’s clearly inferior even to its own predecessor Google Music. I have no idea who decided this thing was a…

Not sure about inferior to spotify though. Lots of things (for me at least) aren't available on spotify, even with subscription. More often than not quality is actually better on YT music. Major thing is also asking in car for 'yo google play me this and that' and spotify just returns some nonsense or cover where YT Music always returns the right thing. Apple music is absolute crap, quality of sound was enough that I didn't even bother extending trial into anything more and UI is atrocious.

YT music, for me at least, not perfect but better than the two by far. I still keep spotify sub because sometimes we share playlists in office etc.. not sure I'll extend to be honest. YT Music on the other hand, especially in car is essential.

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Post by shrimp_emoji »

joegahona wrote: post #376
ericsoderstrom wrote: post #365

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Looks like youtube premium just gives you no ads and allows for video downloads. Which you already can get using ublock and youtube-dl if you're watching from a computer. People who are big fans of youtube premium is it because you're using youtube mostly on mobile device, or is there some other advantage here I'm missing?

Downloads and no ads on my mobile device (so I can listen while running) and on Roku on my TV. It also allows you to play videos with the phone screen off, which I don't think the free plan does.

A collage of corporate platforms that together limit what you can do to extract more value from you. Beautiful.

(I.e., you can't use uBlock Origin or youtube-dl on mobile devices and TVs easily, and that's the way they want it.)

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Post by kleiba »

kbns wrote: post #275
kleiba wrote: post #218

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Bring back dislike count. Not to mention "sort by oldest first".

use 'before:$year' ( eg. "funny clips before:2018" ) is our current saviour.

Is there a key to restrict the search results to a specific channel?
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