Saturday, September 02, 2017
Doesn't make commercial sense
What is Google doing with Youtube? Demonetizing all sorts of channels and videos, most of which are NOT controversial. Changing format and structure to make playlists harder to follow.
I'm not fussing about "censorship" because Youtube is a commercial TV network, fully entitled to choose its programming by any standards it wants. I'm simply puzzled by the RESULTS of these moves.
Normally a publisher or network wants to keep people reading or watching. Addiction is the goal. These latest moves make it much harder and less desirable to stick around.
Normally when one publisher gets self-destructively stupid, other publishers move in and grab the audience.
Nothing is normal now. Youtube is happy to lose viewers, and nobody is trying to pick up the lost viewers.
¶ 5:14 AM 
