And how does YouTube know what people might want to watch? By tracking what they watch and adjusting their algorithms appropriately.
My point is that that is not the reason, but one step on the way. And it is a way to influence people even to the point of enforcing things.
Perhaps you’re not part of the quiet majority.
Correct.
YouTube’s number one goal is to show ads, and their service does that by getting people to watch more videos.
Which is a singular goal with a reachable epitome of video making that is essentially enforcing a rally between content creators to find this epitome.
How does this create unique content? This is merely tolerating the existence of such content, as long as it doesn’t get in the way of profits or rock any boats with “youtube drama”. How does this competition create unique stuff?
People aren’t going to watch variations of the same content back to back, but they do want content presented in a fairly consistent way that draws their attention.
YouTube also penalizes creators from straying too far from their typical content, encouraging separate channels if they want to make diverse content. So that encourages creators to carve out a niche for themselves and fill it. Users will gravitate toward the “best” in a given niche (for various definitions of “best”), so there’s pressure on creators to get better at whatever their unique niche is.
If you really look at YouTube, you’ll find a huge variety of content with high production value that follow a similar marketing style (thumbnails, titles, and presentation format). The marketing style being similar doesn’t mean the content is similar.
My point is that that is not the reason, but one step on the way. And it is a way to influence people even to the point of enforcing things.
Correct.
Which is a singular goal with a reachable epitome of video making that is essentially enforcing a rally between content creators to find this epitome.
How does this create unique content? This is merely tolerating the existence of such content, as long as it doesn’t get in the way of profits or rock any boats with “youtube drama”. How does this competition create unique stuff?
People aren’t going to watch variations of the same content back to back, but they do want content presented in a fairly consistent way that draws their attention.
YouTube also penalizes creators from straying too far from their typical content, encouraging separate channels if they want to make diverse content. So that encourages creators to carve out a niche for themselves and fill it. Users will gravitate toward the “best” in a given niche (for various definitions of “best”), so there’s pressure on creators to get better at whatever their unique niche is.
If you really look at YouTube, you’ll find a huge variety of content with high production value that follow a similar marketing style (thumbnails, titles, and presentation format). The marketing style being similar doesn’t mean the content is similar.