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It isn’t the first time YouTube has pushed a specific length of video, but this is more brazen than how they have operated in the past. Several years ago they c
by whythre 4y ago
It isn’t the first time YouTube has pushed a specific length of video, but this is more brazen than how they have operated in the past. Several years ago they changed the incentives so a video had to be at least 8-10 minutes in order to ‘play nice’ with the algorithm… which was good, in my opinion. Prior to this shift, 2-3 minute (or even shorter) soundbite videos were incredibly common. Now TikTok has YT careening back toward this old, uninformative order, pushing an even shorter format than the equivalent of a cable news blurb.