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Some veteran YouTube staff think Shorts might ruin YouTube (www.theverge.com)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 61 points 3 years ago (2 children)

I don't mind grabbing my pitchfork and joining the "YouTube is already ruined party", but two thoughts first:

That headline is so deliberately vague. It could literally be one employee who said "eh, I don't think YouTube shorts is a good idea".

The article itself doesn't really give you any information that isn't in the headline. It feels like an attempt to stoke anti-YouTube sentiment without providing any useful information.

...okay, with that out of the way...

Yeah, the current YouTube situation is pretty crap.

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 3 years ago

    It does cite internal metrics on ad revenues going down for three consecutive quarters due to lower potential to show ads in short videos compared to longer ones. It's anonymous and doesn't give solid figures but that's what this article is about.

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