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YouTube CEO: Facebook Should 'Get Back To Baby Pictures' (cnet.com)
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki won't divulge her biggest fear about competing with Facebook, but she will give them some free advice. From a report: "They should get back to baby pictures," Wojcicki said Monday at the Code Media conference in Huntington Beach, California. Video has been an obsession for Facebook, as it tries to swipe the most advertising dollars migrating off television before YouTube can get them. Facebook has been aggressively advancing the number of clips and live streams that bubble up to the top of your News Feed and has rolled out a central hub for TV-like programming called Watch. "You always have to take competition seriously. You don't win by looking backwards; you win by looking at your customers and looking forward," she said.
YouTube should get back to USER driven content.
Maybe a little healthy competition can remind them of what built them up in the first place.
...we get videos of pictures of text.
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Sorry, I'm only a 1336 h4x0r.
YouTube is superior for video-sharing for three reasons -
1) You don't need to have a YouTube account to watch videos. I can send my (77-year-old) dad a YouTube link and he can just watch it. While this is possible with Facebook, it's a pain and you're constantly told to sign up.
2) Facebook sticks ads in the middle of videos. I suppose YouTube could do this sooner or later, but right now they don't.
3) Facebook search is hot garbage. With YouTube I can pretty much find whatever I'm looking for fairly easily.
One day I need someone to explain to me what Viemo is for, though.
She is the wrong kind of sacrificial goat for this days political witch hunt. If she had a penis and was white though we could all grab some pitch forks and torches.
Don't worry, my political blood calendar indicates that we should be back to using women as sacrifices in roughly 8 years time or so +/- 2 years. It is about the amount of time a generation grows up watching one particular group being constantly heckled and turns on the hecklers like rabbid attack dogs.
*gasp* She didn't!
Wow, if a man had said that, I bet he'd be fired by now.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
They don't care about mom and dad ranting over politics, but they care about mom and dad being on the platform. Since you can't "pretend-friend" someone and you can't simply not "friend" your parents, the platform is ultimately worthless to any teenager.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
youtube the company thats burned cash sense day 1. the company that gone from upload anything short of porn and beheading to censoring everything but people selling goods. the company advertisers run away from because despite all the attempts to censer the sites still 90% garbage uploads. the site where every channel begs you to hand them money on every video. the company that lets its own users abuse the dmca leading to massive issues with trolls and false flags. and they wanna talk shit about someone else.
Maybe Facebook should get back to baby pictures, but then YouTube should get back to cat videos. Both platforms are against the free expression of ideas, and both are trying to influence politics. To me, allowing big corporations to control ideas and politics is part of fascism.
I have my own issues with Youtube, but it's far and away the most competent video streaming site even with its flaws. Facebook's video controls are hot steaming dog puke compared to Youtube. The UI is atrociously designed, and laggy beyond compare. And my potato may be outdated, but I've got eight cores and sixteen gigs, there's no excuses for this kind of nonsense. (Youtube is plenty responsive.)
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
People got tired of dealing with all the ads and unrelated news on Facebook. The former FB users, to a lesser degree YouTube, have ran to mostly closed off micro-networks like Telegram, Discord, Amino, and Quidd.
You say things that offend me and I can deal with it. Can you?