Come April, another feature of Google will be shutting off for good. Throughout the years, they have been hungry for creating competition and trying to be on par with other sites. With Google+, it was their attempt at Facebook. At over seven years, it was one of their more lengthier products.
As far as what I can tell, there are a lot of products that are still being used to this day. One of the only things that they got rid of, at least judging by it, was Google Video. That came out in January 2005, not too long before YouTube was founded. I remember using it quite a bit because there was a number of video game videos and some TV shows. There was a few points where my dad even used that feature and watched a few stand up specials, mainly Dave Chappelle. I'm surprised that it stayed for that long until 2012, roughly six years after Google bought YouTube.
Ultimately, I guess Google didn't see much progress in trying to be a third pillar. Even with all the controversy, Facebook will still be used. Twitter is still a viable platform, especially with all the celebrities. For them to make Plus disappear that quick is surprising. I'm curious to see how much this will affect this blog. Since mid 2017, I have used it to do updates on blogs and all that. Looks like I'll have to find other methods, such as Tumblr or whatever I could link my stuff to.
A shame, but if it didn't have the numbers, then it was obvious Google had a failure.
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Thursday, February 21, 2019
Monday, April 16, 2018
A Dark Side of YouTube
I usually wait a while until things cool down to discuss certain things, and this is one of those times. Not too long ago, a woman entered YouTube headquarters and shot a few people before killing herself. What drove Nasim Aghdam to do this, and why the video sharing website? And is this a reflection of others frustrations at trying to grow their channels?
Several sites spoke to Aghdam's brother and he went on about her issues regarding YouTube. Stuff about not being given the chance to grow her channel, which was mostly a vegan type channel. That being said, it's a very petty thing to get upset about. Vegan lifestyle isn't something you think of trying to promote on YouTube. That seems more suited for something like this, a blog. Word of mouth would be a lot better on this than a video sharing site. Unless there was something in Aghdam's videos, there's no way the website was causing her channel not to grow.
Now, YouTube hasn't always exactly been on good terms with people, either. Last year, advertisers were pulling ads off the site because of some of them appearing in hateful videos. They have tried to work on what can be "advertiser friendly" and it still frustrates some. A problem with the site and Google is that they don't always have explanations for what works and what doesn't. Asking questions is a joke with answers typically being handled by bots and not being informative. People do get ticked at what this giant does. It doesn't matter if you are big or small on YouTube. They determine what is good for advertisers in their own way and you don't have a choice of anywhere else to go, unfortunately.
I view Aghdam as one that was mentally unstable, a common thing for when these shooters find themselves plastered on the news. There are better things to have a grudge on, and YouTube is not one of them. At the same time, the site is not always understanding how things work in certain circumstances. A lot of things have to be fixed in multiple areas. It's just a matter of when.
Friday, March 31, 2017
YouTube Boycott: Advertisers Hating Hatred
I don't use monetization on YouTube. I use AdBlock on my laptop to avoid the same five to ten advertisers. When I did have to use a computer outside of my home, it's bombarded with phone ads, car insurance, and other stuff like McDonalds and Burger King. Recently, advertisers are pulling themselves out of YouTube advertising because of some of their stuff being on videos that shouldn't exist.
The list is staggering how many have decided to leave. Some big companies like Wal-Mart and Pepsi have made the decision to pull out. YouTube exploded on the scene in 2006 and has been a huge thing for advertising. How do they not know about all the content being made, even back to when the site first started in 2005? Way before I used AdBlock, I typically saw the same ads over and over. It was for stuff like T-Mobile with the red dress girl and whatever movies were hitting theaters at the time. And this was on videos for video games like Doom for example. On one of the college campuses, I watched some older NFL stuff and I kept getting the same Burger King ad for french fries. You can put AdBlock on there, but on vacations, they reset those computers.
Here's a hypothetical situation on what I think advertisers don't want to see. Let's say I want to talk about seeing Tom Brady and the New England Patriots organization die in a plane crash in a video. It's gets a couple hundred thousand views. Maybe I might want ads on it. That's what they don't want to see in this hypothetical. They don't want their stuff on videos that have hatred in them or sensitive material like domestic violence or rape. It doesn't make sense considering all the crime shows that depict violence like NCIS, The Blacklist, and so forth getting ads for car commercials and other things. Even for stuff on CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC. It doesn't add up.
I'm not sure if Google really has a choice. Their responses are very poor and robotic when it comes to certain things. They don't really listen to others. With the advertisers pulling away, this might be the one time they actually will do something. It's a long road ahead. Several articles on this matter have said per minute that 400 hours of content get uploaded. Millions upon millions put up all sorts of videos. It's up to Google to look at all the videos and judge them on their content. They need a large chunk of people to look at them and satisfy the advertisers. Otherwise, it's going to be next to impossible. Whether users go somewhere else is a problem. If some of them can't monetize, they might try a different site (if it's as big as Google) and upload their stuff there. Certain users have left YouTube and come back to it following a certain amount of time on another video sharing site.
Google has to handle this very delicately towards the video creators and advertisers. They can't rush this. If they do, it's going to piss off quite a bit of people who aren't in the top 1000 for video views and creations. Let's hope they find a way to fix this. I really doubt they will.
The list is staggering how many have decided to leave. Some big companies like Wal-Mart and Pepsi have made the decision to pull out. YouTube exploded on the scene in 2006 and has been a huge thing for advertising. How do they not know about all the content being made, even back to when the site first started in 2005? Way before I used AdBlock, I typically saw the same ads over and over. It was for stuff like T-Mobile with the red dress girl and whatever movies were hitting theaters at the time. And this was on videos for video games like Doom for example. On one of the college campuses, I watched some older NFL stuff and I kept getting the same Burger King ad for french fries. You can put AdBlock on there, but on vacations, they reset those computers.
Here's a hypothetical situation on what I think advertisers don't want to see. Let's say I want to talk about seeing Tom Brady and the New England Patriots organization die in a plane crash in a video. It's gets a couple hundred thousand views. Maybe I might want ads on it. That's what they don't want to see in this hypothetical. They don't want their stuff on videos that have hatred in them or sensitive material like domestic violence or rape. It doesn't make sense considering all the crime shows that depict violence like NCIS, The Blacklist, and so forth getting ads for car commercials and other things. Even for stuff on CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC. It doesn't add up.
I'm not sure if Google really has a choice. Their responses are very poor and robotic when it comes to certain things. They don't really listen to others. With the advertisers pulling away, this might be the one time they actually will do something. It's a long road ahead. Several articles on this matter have said per minute that 400 hours of content get uploaded. Millions upon millions put up all sorts of videos. It's up to Google to look at all the videos and judge them on their content. They need a large chunk of people to look at them and satisfy the advertisers. Otherwise, it's going to be next to impossible. Whether users go somewhere else is a problem. If some of them can't monetize, they might try a different site (if it's as big as Google) and upload their stuff there. Certain users have left YouTube and come back to it following a certain amount of time on another video sharing site.
Google has to handle this very delicately towards the video creators and advertisers. They can't rush this. If they do, it's going to piss off quite a bit of people who aren't in the top 1000 for video views and creations. Let's hope they find a way to fix this. I really doubt they will.
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