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- Youtube pre-installed on smart TVs everywhere - Bigger screens are more enjoyable - Much lesser strain on hands compared to holding a phone means longer per
by noisy_boy 2y ago
- Youtube pre-installed on smart TVs everywhere
- Bigger screens are more enjoyable
- Much lesser strain on hands compared to holding a phone means longer periods of watching
- More friction in switching apps on a TV compared to a phone and unless you are casting, much smaller selection of apps
- Fewer distractions like notifications on a phone
- Sofas are comfy; also, autoplay can keep going even if you fall asleep thus skewing the numbers
- jraby3 2y agoMy autoplay keeps going even when I turn off the tv. I can turn it on four hours later and YouTube is still playing. The numbers seem to be way off.
- sharemywin 2y agoI turn it on at night and listen to 8-10 hours of sleep sounds.
- diggan 2y agoWhat are "sleep sounds"? Like sounds of others sleeping? Do you experience silence anything during the day or any other time? I couldn't imagine having sounds while trying to sleep, it's my quiet time when I can fully focus on what's inside my head, and outside sounds tend to be distracting. But still interesting how we all are very different, no right or wrong :)
- p_ing 2y ago12 hours of a Warp Core. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRk-DQUUlz8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRk-DQUUlz8
- nemomarx 2y agoocean waves, the soft noises of a train moving, etc. I used to live very close to a subway station and the sound of it rattling became familiar and comforting eventually, so when I'm out in the countryside now it feels very quiet and I supplement with a white noise machine. It seems popular to use YouTube for a bespoke version of this - there's tons of 8 hour looping videos of rain storms, oceans, etc.
- uuddlrlrbaba 2y agoYes, the sounds of intense sleep apnea. Typically recording 4 or 5 people snoring overlaid into a harmony of sleep sound
- diggan 2y agoUnderstandable! I have my wife to reproduce the same setup so I guess I'm lucky to not having to depend on extra technology for the same thing.
- noisy_boy 2y agoCompletely off-grid, organic, no ads, completely private, no planned-obsolence, reproducible, reliable... the list goes on, lucky indeed!
- Uw7yTcf36gTc 2y agoMaintenance costs tho.
- techjamie 2y agoI throw on video game let's plays or long form retrospectives. If I'm left to myself, I'll end up keeping myself awake thinking about stuff. Funny enough, I usually spend more time picking what to sleep to than I actually spend awake once it starts playing. Most times I'm dead asleep within the first minute or two after spending five minutes making selections. If it goes quiet, I wake up.
- diggan 2y ago> If I'm left to myself, I'll end up keeping myself awake thinking about stuff That's the best part of disconnecting and going to bed, being cozy in the darkness with nothing but your thoughts and emotions. Interesting that others try to avoid that, thanks for sharing :)
- noisy_boy 2y ago> the best part Depends on the type of thoughts that frequent your mind. Dozing off to sleep thinking about chatting with friends is quite different from worrying about your ailing family member. I assure you that the latter isn't something to look forward to for most people.
- sharemywin 2y agolawn mowers, fans, fireplaces, rippling creeks, waves, snow storms, rain storms, and weird hums at various wavelengths.
- catapart 2y agoYeah, this is where my money is on the watch time. I've also seen things like doctor's office waiting rooms running through a curated playlist endlessly.
- diggan 2y agoNot to mention countless of restaurants/stores/any physical location using YouTube to play music/music videos.
- dylan604 2y agoAll that means is more ad sales. For YT, that’s grrrrrreat. For those selling ads, not so much. But to me, this is no different than people buying ads on broadcast at 3am.
- ActionHank 2y agoI would wager that TV viewers are also more likely to be premium subscribers too. Just a hunch though.
- dylan604 2y agoAnd no ad blockers available for most devices connecting to a TV which could also push the premium numbers.
- sbarre 2y agoI can say that's the case for me. YT Premium is the only paid streaming service in our house, and we pretty much only watch it on the big TV.
- kernal 2y agoIf you’re paying for a music subscription service you’re better off subscribing to YouTube premium and getting YouTube Music for free.
- diggan 2y agoIf YouTube Music wasn't so shit, I'd agree with you. Right now I'm holding off on YouTube Premium only for the fact that they want me to pay for YouTube Music too (which I don't need nor want). If they had a cheaper plan without YouTube Music I'd jump on that immediately.
- pjc50 2y ago.. because it's significantly more difficult to block ads on the TV. I'm not sure if Pi-Hole can do it?
- Larrikin 2y agoPiHole can't block YouTube ads but it's trivial to block all ads on Android TV. The ease of it was what made me move away from Roku.
- nickthegreek 2y ago
- paxys 2y agoAnother key one - more TV-length, high production value content on YouTube. The platform doesn't have 3 minute home recordings anymore. Videos by top creators nowadays rival budgets of major TV shows and movies.
- zimpenfish 2y ago> The platform doesn't have 3 minute home recordings anymore I suspect it does (not least because I know I've uploaded a few) but you're going to have to search hard to find them. (Although I guess that brings up the "if you can't find them, do they even really exist outside of the uploader?" question.)
- LocalH 2y agoNot to mention people falling asleep means that all ads will play unskipped, regardless of length. That means they have data that non-zero amounts of people are watching the whole of the extremely long skippable ads that get placed (more than once I've seen 90+ minute ads appear).
- pjc50 2y agoMuted ads playing to the sleeping. Great business for youtube, not so great for the advertiser. (people who use youtube as a sleep aid - don't you get woken up by ads?)
- rendx 2y agoOr possibly even more effective! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subliminal_stimuli https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subliminal_stimuli
- lotsoweiners 2y ago> people who use youtube as a sleep aid - don't you get woken up by ads?) Depends on whether I took a half or a whole gummy.
- techjamie 2y ago> people who use youtube as a sleep aid - don't you get woken up by ads? I pay for Premium for that reason. I don't have any other TV/streaming services, so while I don't especially like giving Google money, I use it enough that the expense is well-justified.
- xhkkffbf 2y agoSo you're saying the key is to make bad content that puts people to sleep because you'll get more ad revenue. Make sense in this world.
- saalweachter 2y agoAlso, you can watch YouTube on your TV and then fiddle around on your phone without being left with a floating window that both obscures your other content and is too small to see some details in the video.
- baranul 2y agoThink that's more to the point. Where people watch YouTube on TV, instead of traditional channels or cable, and they are free to screw around on their smartphones. There is no telling what people are actually paying attention to, because it seems many are just running multiple devices for the sake of it. Devices are always on, then used or watched whenever something comes to mind or catches their attention.