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Well, one step would be to improve the user experience. Because short of having subscribed or being linked to a video I find it cumbersome to navigate videos.

Well, one step would be to improve the user experience. Because short of having subscribed or being linked to a video I find it cumbersome to navigate videos. My entire YT browsing is based on already knowing what I want to watch. I proceed to search and hope that the video is what I am looking for. No previous info about quality, content, anything. Sometimes I have no clue what I want to watch, I just feel like watching something. Back in the day I would flip through channels until I was caught by something. YT should have a discover mode that is similar to navigating through channels on the press of a button. Maybe give me some filters and then let me "peak" into videos. Of course the experience is hard to implement when providers are throttling YT traffic. Flipping through channels would then suck, because the video would take 20 seconds to load all the time. But yea, that's why I don't use it like TV. I use it more like I use Google Search. When I just want to know random interesting things without knowing what I want to look for, Google Search is not that helpful.

FlyingAvatar 12y ago
Even their user experience for being subscribed to channels is pretty bad. I am subscribed to a dozen or so channels. The counts on the sidebar for the number of videos that I "haven't watched" is always incorrect. So is the total number of videos that I have subscribed to and not watched. Clicking on one of your subscribed channels brings to you the channel homepage, but instead of listing new content you haven't seen yet, you see popular content you've seen already. The only page that seems to be useful and accurate is the subscription list itself, but this isn't prominent or obvious. I also often get e-mail notifications for newly released videos which I have already watched some hours before the e-mail was sent. Also, I'd love the ability to pay to remove ads on a channel. The ad revenue for one user watching a given channel has to be trivial, especially for original, instructional content which is what I primarily watch. I bet paying $1 to remove ads on a channel for a year would produce better revenue for YouTube and content producers alike.

FlyingAvatar 12y ago

Even their user experience for being subscribed to channels is pretty bad. I am subscribed to a dozen or so channels. The counts on the sidebar for the number of videos that I "haven't watched" is always incorrect. So is the total number of videos that I have subscribed to and not watched. Clicking on one of your subscribed channels brings to you the channel homepage, but instead of listing new content you haven't seen yet, you see popular content you've seen already. The only page that seems to be useful and accurate is the subscription list itself, but this isn't prominent or obvious. I also often get e-mail notifications for newly released videos which I have already watched some hours before the e-mail was sent. Also, I'd love the ability to pay to remove ads on a channel. The ad revenue for one user watching a given channel has to be trivial, especially for original, instructional content which is what I primarily watch. I bet paying $1 to remove ads on a channel for a year would produce better revenue for YouTube and content producers alike.