Why. Why are they doing this. It’s the same with Netflix. I don’t understand. What is the metric that goes up when they show a couple giant videos.

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charcircuit 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It may reduce decision paralysis and they are hoping their recommendation is good enough.

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tavavex 7 hours ago | parent [-]

I honestly think that at some point, there will be no recommendations page. You'll open YouTube and it'll start autoplaying the video that they (or the advertisers) think you should see. You'll be able to skip to other videos from there, like on short-form content platforms. Likes and subscriptions will dictate how likely it'll be that you'll see a video by that creator in the future. Search and other "outdated" features will be tucked away and purposefully made even more useless than they already are.

	▲	Sharlin an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Maybe you could have a couple of different feeds that you could choose from, we might call these "channels". You could perhaps assign numbers to the channels for convenient selection using the remote. Hmm, why does this remind me of something?
	▲	estimator7292 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Isn't this just Shorts already?
	▲	ares623 6 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		"Video surfing" does have a nice ring to it. You should be a Youtube PM.
	▲	binarymax 7 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Madness

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unsnap_biceps 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I would presume the conversion rate for those specific three videos are much higher then if they're just three of twenty

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csomar an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's an Ad. Next quarter their revenue is up 25%. Since they need to grow 25% each quarter, by the end of 2026 YouTube will strictly display only Ads.

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bambax 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Came here to ask the same question. How do they benefit from showing less videos? I don't get it.