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The Next Chapter for Learning on YouTube
- mingabunga 4y agoBe nice if they made a UI like ispring.com with sections down the RHS, I think that would definitely help with learning
- lofaszvanitt 4y agoFuture generations are fucked.
- iamcurious 4y agoShould YouTubers hop on board of this? Or is the safest bet to assume Google will cancel it?
- outside1234 4y agoGood stuff - I could have never imagined how much I could learn through YouTube - it has basically taken my Spanish from a very rudimentary level to being able to almost watch Netflix series without subtitles (via Dreaming Spanish, which is hosted on YouTube).
- lioeters 4y agoOh I'm so glad you mentioned Dreaming Spanish. From the first video I'm already learning new words, phrases, sentences in Spanish - without any English at all. This immersive approach, and the bite-sized self-contained video shorts, are just what I needed. https://www.dreamingspanish.com/ https://www.dreamingspanish.com/
- arberx 4y agoAre Google announcements a little underwhelming in general? I never hear about a new product or changes from them.
- sp332 4y agoThey're tightening up and cancelling more projects. https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/google-ceo-hints-at-upcoming-headcount-changes-at-company/434878 https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/google-ceo-hints-...
- DistractionRect 4y agoI would say so, unless it's something they are betting big on like with Google+, I often only learn about a new google service when I hear it's being killed. I've always found it odd that for an advertising company they don't seem to do a good job at plugging their own services.
- colinmhayes 4y agoI think that's because they barely release new products.
- bluehat974 4y agoI hope they will propose dynamic exercices like Khanacademy
- an1sotropy 4y agoYoutube has great individual creators like 3blue1brown, but I'm skeptical that youtube itself will supply the additional human curation and editing role required to make an educational resource that is consistently coherent and useful across a range of topics (like say, khanacademy.org). I'm also curious what benefits youtube would provide a creator/educator like, say, musician Charles Cornell, who is already perfectly able to sell his course that he advertises in his youtube videos.
- robertlagrant 4y agoTry Crash Course.
- CobrastanJorji 4y ago> Every day, people come to YouTube to learn something new. True. > shows content on commonly used education apps without distractions like ads, external links or recommendations External links seem important on educational files, and I kind of like recommendations when I'm browsing educational stuff, but whoo, no ads on educational stuff? That's great! > Next year, qualified creators can begin offering free or paid There it is.
- mertd 4y agoHow should the creators be rewarded for their effort?
- eimrine 4y agoMore subscribers for increasing their revenue from other videos, maybe yt-premium or even some protection against infamous random ban because of needness to support learning materials.
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- jahewson 4y ago> More subscribers for increasing their revenue from other videos That’s not an answer as much as it’s moving the question.
- Bloating 4y agowith Thumbs Up, of course. Do you kno whow much effort it takes to login and click?
- yjftsjthsd-h 4y agoJust to play Devil's Advocate (and I can't believe that I'm arguing for YouTube here): Why shouldn't they charge for a useful service? And it does sound like they're removing other major problems with using their platform for this purpose.
- TimTheTinker 4y agoDoes it bother anyone else that YouTube has its own TLD (.youtube)? TLDs used to carry a lot of weight, and used to signify something besides individual entities/companies... but it feels to me like that designation is becoming rather diluted.
- yjftsjthsd-h 4y agoPersonally, I'm quite happy with the proliferation of top level domains. It seems like the alternative was a completely unnecessary layer of indirection; it's not like every .com was a company or every company used a .com, so they weren't even strongly meaningful before.
- Ayesh 4y agoOh yeah, that's what I was just about to comment. One can arrange their own TLD for under $200,000 initial fee, plus around $25,000 a year (IIRC). I imagine there will be a whole TLD auction game, but among those with deep pockets and governed by an organization that doesn't seem to take their job seriously. ICANN looks like a cash grab nowadays to me. I don't mean any offense to the engineers behind it, just that the administration seems quite greedy.
- 9dev 4y agoIt bothers me that we still have those useless suffixes attached to domains. What does „org“, „com“, „net“ even mean to the average user? Nothing. It’s nothing but a pointless ritual at this point, and after ICANN chose to add thousands of generic domains, they don’t have any significance left at all, except that nice names are very expensive now. It would be easier for everybody if we simply removed that extra step that is TLD names.
- nephanth 4y agoRegional TLDs like .us .uk .fr .ru etc. do make sense though
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- mindcrime 4y agoNext year, qualified creators can begin offering free or paid Courses to provide in-depth, structured learning experiences for viewers. Viewers who choose to buy a Course can watch the video ad-free and play it in the background. So you're cloning Udemy? Meh. Not much to be excited about so far. Finally, to help learners apply what they’ve learned, we’re introducing Quizzes — a new way for creators to help viewers test their knowledge. That could be somewhat useful, but.. For example, a math creator who recently posted a series on algebra can create a Quiz on the Community tab to ask their viewers a question related to a concept taught in their latest video. Does anybody ever actually visit the "Community" tab of a channel? Why add this extra friction? Hasn't the technology progressed to the point that quizzes could be integrated right into the video player? For that matter, why not have "adaptive" videos where your quiz results can affect the video that you see (like triggering an extra in-depth explanation for notoriously tricky topic if the quiz taker scores below a certain level, etc.). I hope this works out and provides some value, but I have my doubts as it stands.
- sbierwagen 4y ago>Does anybody ever actually visit the "Community" tab of a channel? They don't want creators funneling users to external sites like Patreon. They want 100% of their income going through Youtube. Same reason they roll out the "most replayed" feature, to make it easier to skip in-video sponsor segments.
- newswasboring 4y agoHow does most replayed make it easy to skip sponsors?
- likium 4y agoVery frequently the most replayed marker is when the sponsor roll ends.
- PoignardAzur 4y agoI just assumed it was another feature stolen from That-Other-Streaming-Site-Nobody-Talks-About-That-Rhymes-With-CornHub.
- cobertos 4y ago> shows content on commonly used education apps without distractions like ads, external links or recommendations It's almost like they know how addicting their recommendations and other "distractions" are. They have to make a separate product to actually create a healthy environment for learning.
- svnpenn 4y agoYouTube killed learning on their platform, when they killed the downvote. They removed the one metric that people had to signal that content is crap. So now people have to trust that "the algorithm" is filtering out all the junk. Which of course we know doesn't happen. The algorithm only cares about engagement, it doesn't care if the content is of good quality or even truthful.
- pferdone 4y agoYeah, how will I know a course is worth it without visible user feedback?
- Koshkin 4y ago> content is crap But that would be just someone’s personal opinion (or worse). Why should I care? Besides, people discuss things on forums, and a more detailed review is more useful than a simple vote. Finally, it is often not that hard to see whether the presentation or the content is worth your while from the first few minutes of watching it. (There are, of course, some cases when watching is made difficult because of the presenter’s excessive showing their face or gesticulation, or having a distracting accent, but even those do not necessarily deserve being called “crap.”)
- svnpenn 4y agoIs this a serious comment? Your comment here is so obviously misguided that it borders on comedy. If you're serious, I can give a serious reply.
- rurp 4y agoI can scan hundreds of vote counts in the time it takes to watch a few minutes of a single video. Google chose to make this process orders of magnitude worse for no good reason. Also, why should I care about the algorithm's opinion? IME it's much much worse on average than the up+down vote ratio from thousands of individuals.
- supperrtadderr 4y agoI now use a quick views to like ratio to see if a video is any good (usually for tutorials of things) For instance a few weeks ago I was stuck on a quest in WoW Classic, so I did a quick YouTube search, 100k+ view video, dozens of likes. Yeah the video sucked and didn't show anything worthwhile.
- ddlutz 4y agoI'm surprised it's taken this long, honestly. Seeing other sites which in some ways just clone Youtubes functionality but are focused on education, where creators can make courses and sell them (Udemy for example), it just makes sense to me.
- forbiddenvoid 4y agoWhen you say 'clone Youtube's functionality' do you just mean host and play videos? That's a pretty narrow definition, and one that I don't think YouTube deserves to have a monopoly on.
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- willhinsa 4y agoCan we go back to the chapter on YouTube where we had downvotes so we can tell whether or not a video is going to be high quality and informative or not?
- PartiallyTyped 4y agoFWIW there's an addon [1] that can help with this. [1] https://www.returnyoutubedislike.com https://www.returnyoutubedislike.com
- movedx 4y agoI don't understand YouTube's move to remove the downvote button - cyber bullying? What I will say though is it actually hasn't stopped me from being able to identify a bad video. If a "bad" video had 1,000 upvotes and (previously) had 10,000 downvotes, combined with a high view count and engage via the comments, just removing the downvotes still tells me everything I need to know: 1,000 upvotes on a high view count video with high engagement? Probably a bad video. But again, I don't know why they removed it? /shrug
- moffkalast 4y agoWe all know why they removed it, they were butthurt over their cringe rewinds consistently getting downvoted into oblivion. /s
- cwkoss 4y agoI think it was less Youtube's ego and more the ego's of its advertiser and IP-hoarding-company patrons
- Gigachad 4y agoBecause corporate videos like movie trailers kept getting destroyed and it became a news event when there was a massive downvote count. They had a setting to disable votes per video but that just means the company admits the video is unpopular.
- Entinel 4y agoI am affiliated with a few Youtubers from a wide variety of topics and the general gist I have gotten from all of them is that they don't want to charge for content nor they do really want to do sponsorships or Patreon. They just want their CPMs to not be absolute garbage like they used to be.
- sp332 4y agoThis says they're not putting ads on these videos though?
- Entinel 4y agoYes? That doesn't contradict what I'm saying. Youtube isn't putting ads on the paid courses but that doesn't help most Youtubers. Youtubers that want to sell courses are already doing that on Udemy and Teachable. What Youtubers want is their CPM on their regular videos to not be in the toilet.
- kache_ 4y agoI've learned so much from youtube, I've routinely provided tips to people who generate great content. It's awesome to see them invest more into this :)
- 101008 4y agoOff-topic, but since when .youtube is a valid TLD? And any company can apply to have their own TLD?
- sp332 4y agoYes, it's been 10 years since ICANN opened it up and let anyone with $185,000 apply for a new TLD. https://www.cern/ https://www.cern/
- avian 4y agoPrivately owned top-level domains have existed for almost 10 years now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_top-level_domain#Expansion_of_gTLDs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_top-level_domain#Expan...
- maerF0x0 4y agoI'm wary to rescind educational truth and censorship to YT.
- djaychela 4y agoI produce Music Tech-based educational content on YT. It started as a hobby and sideline to my main work (which at the time was classroom teaching of the same content). While I'm no longer working in classrooms (pandemic plus other reasons led to this), I'm still producing content, which I think is of good quality and worthwhile. The issue I have with it is that I refuse to produce attention-grabbing clickbaity titles or thumbnails. I don't like the whole algorithmically-driven race to the bottom of the brain stem, and have zero interest in producing the same. I've had plenty of comments from viewers who say the videos are great and informative, but if I'd just jazz things up a bit then I'd get more views. I'm just wondering how this will change (if at all) with this new program. It takes a LOT of time to produce decent content, and even more if you're going to provide a course and backup materials etc.. Writing curricula is HARD work, and writing tests, etc., that are actually valid is reasonably challenging and time consuming. I currently get about £100 a month from YT, which definitely doesn't reflect the time I put into it (but I know it has other benefits as I sell a fair number of books partly as a result of the viewership). I know that the beasts of the platform (3b1b spring to mind) would do really well from this (and deservedly so), but I do wonder if things really need to change to make YT work well for genuinely-produced non-clickbait educational content.
- asciimov 4y agoAs a kid that grew up poor, all I can think about is great... another way to divide the haves and the have-nots. Society benefits when education is free. Keeping educational content behind a paywall just speaks to greed.
- CobrastanJorji 4y agoAlso doesn't seem to match up well with Google's whole "make the world's information universally accessible and useful" motto.
- Ralo 4y agoFantastic, so all those tutorial video you've been watching for free on Youtube? That's now a course for $14.99, BUT DONT YOU WORRY you get a quiz with it now.
- moffkalast 4y agoYaaaaaay...
- desmosxxx 4y agoRemoving downvotes now makes more sense
- Jemm 4y agoCan we please now have a UI that doesn't cover the content when paused.
- thewebcount 4y agoDear lord, yes, please! I have so much space on my screen. Just please leave the video as the creator made it!
- thenerdhead 4y agoMaybe just me, but I'm not really excited for established YouTubers to sell more stuff and expand their empires. It's already a winner-take-all game of attention. The beauty of YouTube is finding like a retired professor who puts up their lectures on an account with a couple thousand subscribers. It is not having a click-bait worthy thumbnail, over-produced video, and barely learning anything while being mindlessly entertained. YouTube will kill many services in the process like skillshare, udemy, etc. They will continue to get bigger and bigger or this will fail miraculously.
- an1sotropy 4y agoThey might (do that kind of killing), but I'd also like to think that good educators are a segment that will be wary and savvy enough to steer clear of something that doesn't support the learning that they want to foster, so other learning platforms will endure. Basically I don't think that selling education works like selling ads. But I'm not objective (being an educator).
- Ayesh 4y agoI found channels with 10k-100k subscribers to be extremely high in quality and... bespoke. Just these days, I am learning a lot about OpenWRT while I wait for my router to arrive, and there was one channel with near 30k subscribers run by an amazing person, as he shares quite detailed information about routers, even the ones that are less exciting. This was such a fresh breath from Linus Tech Tips style "we upgraded to 100 Gbps network" kind of content, because most of us are just tinkering around with consumer hardware, and geek out on minor details. That, and they don't shove merchandise and minute long sponsored contents to you.
- orsenthil 4y agoTo me it feels like youtube is trying to do some Udemy here.
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- TaupeRanger 4y agoCan't wait for Google to kill this feature set 9 months after release.
- throw_m239339 4y agoYoutube, please fix your search function. Only show me the content I'm searching for, not something completely unrelated to my search "just in case I like it", also work on your recommendation system cause it still sucks... and stop trying to shove "shorts" don't my throat as well... There is a good reason I use Youtube and not Tik Tok...
- cphoover 4y agothis so much...
- alexb_ 4y agoMaybe I'm wrong for immediately thinking of the worst case scenario, but the moment I saw "Pay To Watch" I immediately thought about those garbage courses that will give you the "secret" to making gazillions of dollars in the stock market. I wonder how YouTube is going to approach content like that. This definitely won't just start with "qualified creators", and even if it does, the people deciding who is qualified may not be 100% accurate (or even worse, being "qualified" gives more legitimacy to a scam product).
- sergiotapia 4y agoTiktok has replaced youtube for me. Shorter form video means less of a chance to sell me junk, more "in the flesh" content from real people. For example I wanted to find a specific room on a cruise ship and someone recorded it in 30 seconds on tiktok. The _specific_ room! Youtube is becoming cable TV, too many grifters and long form content for no reason other than to make a buck. On tiktok, I found great content for replacing a toilet flush mechanism, drilling pilot holes into wood to hang lights, a cruiseship stateroom walkthrough, CPU benchmarks, GPU benchmarks, Anker charging device review, it doesn't stop there. Google should most definitely be afraid. They are losing this game.
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- ytyl 4y agoI spend hours per week learning on youtube. The strength of it is finding 10 year old obscure videos with gems that aren't covered by big content houses. I've gone hundreds of hours deep into subjects I would not have if I had to pay and sign up and quiz and be quantized. All the while taking ads in the face like a good boy. I've always worried about the day Youtube starts killing (what I think is) its best feature, and I think we are finally there.
- lizardactivist 4y agoA lot of noise in the signal over there. I find YouTube to be full to the brim with absolutely brain-rotting stuff like "Brightside!", "Quickfacts!", "Get smarter every day!", and stuff that is more on the dumb trivia side than actual, usable knowledge.
- cube00 4y agoThe way YouTube refuses to enforce their "misleading thumbnail" policy says it all about the content they want to encourage. Most creators (rightly or wrongly) justify because "everyone else does it, so we need to do it as well" [1] [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzRGBAUz5mA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzRGBAUz5mA
- adamc 4y agoIf you have to buy the course to get access to this, I am not sure it will matter. I watch lots of youtube videos, and I pay for courses from places like udemy, but... I don't see myself as converting the things I already pay a youtube subscription (or a Nebula subscription, etc.) to watch into paid courses. If it's cheap enough to temp companies like udemy to use it, fine, but then if would effectively be invisible to me. I don't care how udemy hosts their videos.
- w10-1 4y agoThis announcement just confuses things. Is it just to warn edtech companies that Google is muscling its way in? The business model is unclear. There are no ads, so any income comes from more direct revenue sharing or user fees? If the teaching site embeds the video, what does google get? The technical model is unclear. This is only to watch embedded in a frame on the creator site, and not on youtube? Yet, google wants to control the community tab and do quizzes? It sounds like Google wants to own the entire interaction. It's unclear how or when to get started, and who this is relevant for. Who is qualified? Who do you contact? It violates the first rule of youtube: say it in seconds. And it's written as if the author/director is himself a creator, complete with personal anecdote about his kids. Must we present ourselves as such even for business communications? I suspect my expectations of google announcements are dated.
- Animats 4y agoIf you're making educational content to be embedded into another site, you don't need YouTube. Because you are not using Google for video discovery. So put your video elsewhere. Vimeo, PeerTube, etc. Preferably multiple places. Relying on Google to maintain a non ad supported product is very risky. Basing a business on it is suicidal. See the infamous list of dead Google services.[1] [1] https://killedbygoogle.com/ https://killedbygoogle.com/
- amadvance 4y agoYoutube allows unlimited videos with unlimited size and with good quality completely for free. You can also keep ads disabled if you want. No other service is even comparable.
- Animats 4y ago> You can also keep ads disabled if you want. Only for this special educational project. YouTube has been putting ads on un-monietized videos without asking the uploader for some time now.
- CobrastanJorji 4y agoI had thought that such ads only appeared when the video included content that belonged to another company that chose to puts ads on it, like if you made a music video but used a song owned by a record label. Do they put ads on stuff that's entirely yours? It's mentioned in their FAQ: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2475463 https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2475463
- vdfs 4y agoDidn't Vimeo raise prices and asked people to pay a lot or get their videos deleted in short transition time? I don't really know what PeerTube is, and at this point I'm afraid to ask, tried it several time and it just doesn't work, or way inferior to Youtube
- max47 4y agoYouTube alternatives sound great until you actually try them. The best exemple is when youtubers leave for reasons related to monetization. They always came back when they foud out that not only do other platform don't pay them (without a pay wall) but good platform will actually charge them for the hosting. finding your own ads is also really fucking hard when google isn't doing it for you. Free unlimited 4k@60 video hosting is a hard to beat when users are extremely hostile to paying for thing they used to have for free (look at the feedback from. Youtube premium)
- balls187 4y agoUkrainian version sounds cool. But also sounds like major pandering to me.
- honkler 4y agowelcome to america
- jrm4 4y agoYeah, I don't need details and we don't need this. The real issue is, the world loves and perhaps needs "universal video hosting," something like "the open web" but for video. Right now, "Youtube" is that. And they're not a completely awful steward of it, but we need better. The for-profit model is not ideal.
- hydrolox 4y agohow can it be free and not for profit at large scale?
- jrm4 4y agoThe same way the internet, email, bittorrent and even cryptocurrencies are?
- Jabbles 4y agoMost people have to pay for their internet connection. Gmail used to be ad-supported, but is now just a loss-leader for other Google products. Bittorrent is built on top of people's paid-for internet connections and cannot scale to anything like the size of YouTube. Cryptocurrencies have transaction fees.
- jrm4 4y ago"No one will ever write an encyclopedia for free"
- randfur 4y agoTaxes.
- ugh123 4y agoI'm pessimistic on their approach to "qualified creators" and what measure or qualifications they use to determine that. Theres no shortage of quacks, frauds, and fakers ready to "teach" you all they [don't] know on a subject, or worse: spread misinformation in the form of structured "educational" content. Just take a look at LinkedIn these days...
- cafed00d 4y agoYouTube has had the content and engineering UI to beat Coursera or iTunes U since 2009. As a nerdy little kid from Bangalore, I remember _really_ learning how to write code from Mehran Sahami's programming paradigms videos from back in the day. (While we're on the subject of Mehran-appreiciate: we're all still geometers living in the times of Euclid OR we're all coders living in the times of Mehran? :)). Couple that with benefits of YT Premium, there's a ton of engaging features they can build here that very likely make it a super sustainable product long term. I'm super excited!
- ncfausti 4y agoI learned from Mehran as well. His course was absolutely life-changing for me. So thankful to have had the opportunity to learn from him, for free.
- rychco 4y agoI’m hopeful that this will be a good thing for high-quality educational content. Udemy, as an alternative, is largely poor quality content scams that have fake reviews and outrageous prices (so that the seemingly constant “sales” encourage you to purchase). If YouTube can improve on this experience even a little bit then it’s a success in my eyes.
- Gigachad 4y agoI have unlimited access to udemy via work and don’t even bother. The free content on YouTube is generally better. Not sure how paid YouTube content will be better because it seems the incentive of money just draws a bunch of spam content while the good stuff is experts sharing what they love.
- kumarvvr 4y agoCourses on popular IT technologies are good. React, Angular, Web development, App development, etc. Especially by the likes of Stephen Girder or Maximilian. However, the niche areas (engineering, CAD, Math, etc) have been taken over by regular shitty offline tution centers (there are hundreds of thousands of such in India at least). They create crappy content and review bomb.
- staindk 4y agoBig, low-res, jittery gifs on a YT blog post? Weird choice...
- abdusco 4y agoIf only there was a way to save screen recordings in an efficient manner and host them on a fast server...
- debacle 4y agoI feel that YouTube is too generic of a platform for this. There are other, targeted platforms that do digital courseware much better.
- pamelafox 4y agoI am creator of online programming courses (notably the ones on Khan Academy), and I would not feel comfortable delivering a programming course where the sole form of assessment was a quiz. A quiz format can be used to check on some kinds of knowledge, but a programming course requires coding exercises (like the challenges and projects used on Khan). That being said, for other domains, quiz-style assessment can get you quite far, depending on the sophistication of the quiz software. I like quizzes with multiple answer types, per-answer feedback, spiral assessments, etc.
- lawgimenez 4y agoThere should be an alternative, I'm not a fan of new programmers relying on YouTube. I saw a code once from a fresh graduate who had a Java YouTuber for reference and followed the recommendation of the YouTuber that adding static to all the properties (variables and methods) is a good idea.
- SuboptimalEng 4y agoAs a YouTuber who makes educational coding content, this is huge news! One of the biggest hurdles for making a course (for me) has been figuring out which platform to put it on. My entire audience is on YouTube so it makes total sense to put a course directly on my channel. Most big creators have (some form of) courses on other platforms as they are a great source of income. For example, Ali Abdaal (back when he had 1M subs) made 40K - 60K[0] per month by making courses on SkillShare. Convincing your audience to buy a course on another platform may be a viable for big creators, but it is much harder for small creators like myself. Having courses directly on YouTube is the best alternative. I've always wanted this feature, but never knew how to bring it up to anyone working at YouTube! If any one from YouTube is reading this feel free to reach out - I've got lots of ideas on this! [0] https://youtu.be/VTTp5A-rSdc?t=2013 https://youtu.be/VTTp5A-rSdc?t=2013
- oth001 4y agoCool, they're gatekeeping making money from courses.
- kumarvvr 4y agoThis feels like forced innovation. Why not build a new product, that actually does what they want to do? And use the YT infrastructure? Why does Google have to shoehorn everything into YT? It is important to note that having your videos on a platform like Udemy or the likes is orders of magnitude better than on youtube. The clickbaity titles are a drag on cognition in YT. Has anyone noticed how the YT recommendation algorithm is absolutely shit? I watch one video of some obscure thing, by mistake, and I get recommended for it for weeks.
- ta-run 4y agoThe brand name brings in some default level of adoption I'm sure.
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- mikewarot 4y agoThe value of this initiative hinges on YouTube ability to support and pay creators who work outside the algorithm. I can't see them serving 2 masters like that.
- jp0d 4y agoIs this the end of Udemy? Edx and Coursera have positioned themselves uniquely by offering online certificates and degrees from reputed universities. I've noticed that most of the content creators on Udemy have channels on YouTube as well. They usually offer free content to showcase their paid content on Udemy. They wouldn't have to do that anymore as they can just switch to Youtube.
- j45 4y agoWow. It’s a little surreal to see YouTube build an “interactive” video learning playhead similar to ones I and others have built in our past. It will be interesting to see how YouTube balances current incentives for long videos compared with online learning often being better delivered in many cases through short videos, known by many names (bite size videos, micro learning). Learning videos are a lot of work to make and even more work to update, and updates are guaranteed. This provides some tools but whether it eases the workflow wha to hope will happen, it would empower a lot of subject experts. Structured content is a great idea. Hopefully this won’t go away like the previous features for annotating and interactive in the past. Having offline capabilities for this learning content is important if it is learning for the many and not the few. YouTube in some ways is the worlds largest LMS already from a content perspective. We just may be heading into a post LMS world.
- oxff 4y agoDoes anyone even use Youtube Music / Youtube Gaming? I just interact with the main Youtube site whenever I use it. Structured Content sounds great, but we already have that: add a number to your video title.
- woevdbz 4y agoThis sounds like a content acquisition strategy. YouTube's embedded player isn't very good for the average branded website, as it shows a bunch of "related videos" and links that usually take the user to other content. This leads content creators away from using YouTube as a video CDN for their websites, because I guess YouTube would rather not be a freebie CDN. Except I guess for some strategic content like education, they seem to be OK serving as a CDN for the partner's website ("distraction free" I guess means YouTube's eating up the video distribution cost on those websites without making money), and this gives YouTube more video content into their library, that they can turn around and recommend in their apps
- skilled 4y agoGreat comments and perspectives from a lot of people so far, but what I am curious about is - will there be an affiliate program for this kind of content? Specifically, programming related courses. Quite a few really good coders and designers publish on YouTube, but their courses are hosted elsewhere and can be promoted as an affiliate. This sounds like you will now have to talk to these creators directly and make direct “deals”, or worse - not be able to affiliate with their courses at all.
- ArrayBoundCheck 4y agoWhy do I feel like I'll still be asked to like and subscribe? I'm not interested in youtube cloning good resources we already have only for it to be sunset or charge a bunch. Like when people got upset about the firebase and map price hike
- ajsnigrutin 4y ago"Pay to watch" I'm willing to bet that the algorithms will prioretize these videos over free videos... so, after watching a video on transistors (like you do now), you won't get a related video about history of computing (in the related bar, like you do now), but that video will get hidden, and you'll see a bunch of "pay to watch" content there. The result it, some people will pay for stuff that's already available for free, hidden by the algorithms, some people won't learn something new, because they won't want to pay, and wont bother doing advance searches, and "free" creators will lose ad revenue and be forced to produce "pay to watch" videos.
- aryamaan 4y agosounds like a loss situation for audience. win for a few creators and super win for yt
- thisisntme 4y agoI had no idea .YouTube was a top-level domain.
- cube00 4y agoCloud giants get whatever they want.
- bncy 4y agoI think it all goes back to the fact that if we'd still have stars for rating videos on YouTube instead of algorithm-driven suggestions and no real way to decide whether people really liked the content or not, we wouldn't be here. That would not be necessary if I could still clearly see who's got good ratings and who doesn't
- scrollaway 4y agoWithout algorithm driven decisions I would not haven 90 percent of my very high quality feed. Stars are usually worthless. People leave 1 star or 5 stars, that’s akin to a down or up vote. And with the algorithm you never look at the ratings, really; you just trust the feed, because it’s good! YouTube’s algorithm is extremely good when you know how to give it a helping hand, especially for educational content. I’m quite happy they’re pushing for more educational tools and ways for educational creators to make money.
- Dimidium-07 4y agoThat are great news! It's about time that YouTube focus more on learning content! I'm building a platform where people can connect who consume the same YT videos. I fell like the comment section is a horrible place for educational content. Would love to hear your thoughts on my project. It's https://www.baselog.co https://www.baselog.co
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- berry_sortoro 4y ago