Having watched hundreds of academic presentations and been at many technical conferences, I don't agree. If you compare a paper published in a conference's pro

Having watched hundreds of academic presentations and been at many technical conferences, I don't agree. If you compare a paper published in a conference's proceedings with the corresponding oral presentation (which is what his videos are) there tends to be a difference. The worst presentations are those that try to copy/paste the paper into PowerPoint resulting in walls of text and those are the most likely to have a references slide. The ad for the newsletter is very reasonable for the venue (Youtube) and if it would be unacceptable in a different context, like showing the videos in a classroom, that is not the author's fault.