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YouTube CEO: Facebook Should 'Get Back To Baby Pictures' (cnet.com)

Posted by msmash on from the free-advice dept.

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.

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  1. Stones from glass houses by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

  2. So now instead of pictures of text... by Bohnanza · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ...we get videos of pictures of text.

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    Sorry, I'm only a 1336 h4x0r.

  3. YouTube is currently better... by CohibaVancouver · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

  4. Re:I'll just leave this here. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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.

  5. The pot calling the kettle black by William+Baric · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.