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What does YouTube think it's business is? From my pov they are an advertising company, they want users to spend as long as possible on the site inorder to view
by benj111 4y ago
What does YouTube think it's business is?
From my pov they are an advertising company, they want users to spend as long as possible on the site inorder to view those ads.
I can sort of understand rewarding regular uploads from that pov, a new video by X comes out, you go to view it and then watch a few more videos.
This model doesn't explain other things though. If I find a new channel and want to binge, why stop me watching from oldest first?
Why remove downvotes? If I watch a video that has a lot of invisible downvotes, I get pissed because it's rubbish, it seems a toss up whether I watch another vid, or leave the site. That risk rises exponentially with every rubbish vid I come across.
- li4ick 4y agoTheir business is whatever their metrics say it is. In this case, TikTok is eating their lunch, so their business is to replicate TikTok.
- benj111 4y agoBut you can replicate tiktok whilst not shafting your existing users.
- IYasha 4y agoLol. This was probably true in 2000s. But their main goal is not ads. User data gathering, processing, human behavior studying is much, much more important business. Google was into ML right at the beginning. When scientific papers on the subjects were still a bit "exotic". I was almost dragged into that.