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The reason they don't, I believe, is because they may lose their leader position if they do that. The reason the artists are there, and don't bite to any of the
by nolok 4y ago
The reason they don't, I believe, is because they may lose their leader position if they do that. The reason the artists are there, and don't bite to any of the "let's push you into a separate page", is because they want the eyeballs. Youtube "normal" pages have the eyeballs.
When you see how youtube "live gaming" section is failing despite being so much technically superior to the competition on the video side, I don't think the artists are wrong on that one.
But yes, I agree that they absolutely should, and it would make the experience so much better ... Another exemple is how your "my subscription" page, meant for checking all the channels you're subscribed at once to not miss any content that you're interested in, becomes utterly useless once you sub to a couple decently active music channels, which tends to publish much much more frequently than regular video channels.
- intrasight 4y agoIf by "eyeballs" you mean discovery and recommendations, I also don't see how staying on the main site helps artists. It has a crappy music experience for the consumer. And I, the consumer, generally know what I want to listen to and will search for it.
- nolok 4y agoNo I meant literal eyeballs, or put another way, the number of people looking at those pages.
- intrasight 4y agolooking at which page?
- nolok 4y agoI'm not sure how to answer your question as it seems to me it makes no sense in the context of the conversation we're having. Issue: music video are mixed with normal video on the high traffic site Solution: separate them on a separate site (which is essentially what your subdomain idea is) Issue with the solution: music video channels don't want that, because they want to be on the high traffic site, and they've already seen with live streaming that no people don't go out of their way to find them back once they're removed from the high traffic parts So, "which pages", well the high traffic youtube page, which they wouldn't be on if they're relegated to music.youtube.com only.
- intrasight 4y agoOkay. "site" makes sense. But if a search on the main site also shows results form the music site, then problem solved - right?