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Dave Morin: YouTube is a far more egregious offender than Meta
“Just to throw it out there, YouTube is a way worse, way more egregious offender.”
Meta's settlement drops teen daily limit to one hour if competitors agree
“For that two hour time limit, it will be reduced to a one hour daily limit if TikTok, Snap, and YouTube also agree.”
Sam Lessin: Social networks mint new mechanics to combat social currency inflation
“And just to riff on this for one more second, that actually is, I think, one theory of generally product, like social products in general, is that all sorts of features effectively, like there's an inflation rate that exists in social currencies. And so what h…”
YouTube blocked More or Less podcast promotion for mentioning Donald Trump
“We had a great podcast episode and I can't promote it because we mentioned the DT name.”
Sam Lessin claims YouTube subscriber counts are easily bought and clearly fake
“The subscriber number on YouTube is clearly fake, because I just like, Literally paid 300 bucks.”
Dave Morin: YouTube is an under-discussed driver of kids' screen time
“YouTube is a nefarious part of this equation that almost no one ever talks about. It's like a, it's a huge part of kids' screen time.”
Jessica Lessin: FAST channels will be the next YouTube-scale creator wave
“But this is gonna be the next, like, YouTuber kind of thing.”
Casey Neistat: No traditional celebrity fame compares to internet fame
“I was extremely naive to the fame aspect of it. Like there is no fame, like YouTube fame, like internet fame.”
Van Veen: CollegeHumor Is More Profitable Under Subscriptions Than Peak YouTube
“We were the biggest comedy brand in the world on YouTube and stuff, and we tried to appeal to everybody, and we had a big audience, but like, we weren't as profitable as they are now.”
Sam Lessin Claims YouTube Hides Functional Headcount in Other Google Divisions
“They must be hiding a bunch of headcount, like in other places, like in the ads teams or things like that off the books.”
Lessin: Built AI pipeline that autonomously produces and uploads YouTube videos
“So I literally now have a pipeline where I ask a question and it fully produces and deploys YouTube videos that are three to seven minutes that are excellent on like any topic I want through to YouTube.”
Brit Morin: Taylor Swift's New Heights podcast drove 500 million views rapidly
“According to measurement company Mondo Metrics, Taylor Swift and New Heights reached half a billion views across all of the podcast episode across social media in under 24 hours. Three hundred and seventy nine million on Instagram, sixty one million on X, fift…”
Sam Lessin: YouTube's Hype tipping is driven by junior PMs seeking promotion
“That can't possibly matter. So that's the thing about a company like YouTube. There's absolutely no way. There's some junior, junior product manager who's trying to get promoted. Who's like, this will be revenue. He's like, that will be five dollars of revenue…”
Jessica Lessin: YouTube is the sleeper giant of the entire internet
“YouTube is the sleeper everything of the internet, I'm convinced.”
Dave Morin: YouTube's creator tools are vastly superior to other platforms
“The YouTube creator tools are really good. And they, the feeling that you have being a creator on YouTube is vastly superior to the other platforms.”
Dave Morin: Creators Must Diversify Platforms and Build Direct Channels
“What I'm arguing for is that people do not build only for Instagram. I think you've got a lot of people that are out there building only for Instagram, only for TikTok, only for YouTube, whatever. Just like an investor would never invest in a single stock. You…”
Neistat: Creator Economy Now Supports a Viable Middle Class
“10 years ago, if you weren't one of those people at the top, you really couldn't. There was no middle class. And we're seeing now a middle class of celebrity, of influencer, of creator.”
Neistat: Young kids make no distinction between Disney+, YouTube, and Netflix
“My kids don't differentiate what source the content's coming from. To them, there's no distinction between Disney+, YouTube, and Netflix.”
Dave Morin: YouTube Has Roughly 7,100 Employees
“There's 7000 people, 7100 people working at YouTube.”
Dave Morin: Google AI Predicts NFL Pass Rushers Better Than Live Announcers
“Apparently Google I think on YouTube with sports and the NFL, they're basically, like, have these little rings that show up underneath the athletes as they move into position before the play starts, and the AI is actually predicting who's going to rush the qua…”
Brit Morin: Dude Perfect Is a Top 10 YouTube Channel Globally
“And I just continue to remain fascinated by how a YouTube brand like Dude Perfect, which is one of the top 10 biggest channels globally, can command the adoration and love of young boys in like such a way where they rank it higher than anything they've ever do…”
Brit Morin: YouTube's $50B revenue makes it bigger than Netflix's $37B
“Did you guys see that YouTube within Google's earnings is actually now is a fifty billion dollar revenue generating company, which if you don't count Meta as a media company makes YouTube kind of the number one and Netflix now is, is thirty seven billion at nu…”
Brit Morin: YouTube introduces 'Hype' mechanics to boost highly ranked videos
“Basically you get like three hype credits every, I don't know the time limit, like every month or so. And it's like a mega like, so it's not just liking a video, it's a mega like, and the videos that get the most mega likes are now ranked in the algorithm high…”