Magnora7's podcast interviews are being hidden from youtube search results

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[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

a lot of my favorite youtube documentaries are still on youtube but don't show up in results. I only still have them because I had already saved them before but new people won't likely see them.

[–]magnora7[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

It's weird, it wasn't like this 5 or 10 years ago. When search engines just actually searched for the thing you were searching for.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

I think youtube's plan from the start was to not make money at first but over time monetize it with ads and censor more. They had to get it popular and get people hooked first.

[–]magnora7[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I think youtube is still a loss-leader. I don't think youtube has ever made money. The servers and bandwidth simply cost too much. They basically have a google-subsidized monopoly over video streaming, but that's starting to finally change.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

that may be, they keep that info close. But we see traditional TV and cable advertising revenues tank due to less people watching it. Some of the only shows making money are live sports because people have fear of missing out and want to watch it then. If they had watched a taped sports event they could skip past ads. People prefer to watching streaming shows like netflix to avoid ads, tho I bet Netflix eventually adds in ads in order to make more money. They also want to lose money at first, hook people in, then monetize it later. Youtube has lost some viewers as they put in ads and censored content but there is some magical number where they make the optimum highest possible money. And the money does not come from only ads. Corporations, politicians, govts etc will pay them to censor, and to push certain videos to trend that they want people to see. Propaganda is big business. Money is also printed out of nothing at the federal reserve, and if google ever loses money they can just get a bailout.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Their strategy is a bit like a Nigerian scam.

After they have built a large enough user base, they make their product shittier and shittier so that the only people left are gullible idiots

It is then that they go in for the kill. They raise their subscription fees, show ads every two seconds, and their customers just keep paying until their bank accounts are drained dry.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

yeah or a MLM. Some youtubers used to make decent careers but lost a lot of that in the adpocalypse now most really can't make much money off it, they have a little income from patreon or ads for things they put themselves in the middle of their videos. I do some youtube videos but not for a living just for fun.