YouTube CEO on Facebook video ambitions: 'They should get back to baby pictures'

Re:YouTube CEO on Facebook video ambitions: 'They should get... by steve-benjamins on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @12:58PM (#16369184)

YouTube has been an incredible place for building an audience for me. I started publishing videos in November of last year and growth has been dramatic (for me at least— my content is pretty niche, I review website builders): http://s3.amazonaws.com/sitebuilderreport-assets/images/file...

Facebook on the other hand turned my Facebook "page" into a payola scheme where I had to pay to access my audience. Lame.

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Re:YouTube CEO on Facebook video ambitions: 'They should get... by Siecje on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @01:13PM (#16369312)

Assuming no new growth, in 10 months you will be able to make money from YouTube.

Do you think the 4000 watch hours in the past 12 months is too high or just right?

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Re:YouTube CEO on Facebook video ambitions: 'They should get... by steve-benjamins on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @01:15PM (#16369338)

I'm probably not a good person to ask. I make money through affiliate links in my video descriptions— so I have no plans to use Youtube's official monetization programs.

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Re:YouTube CEO on Facebook video ambitions: 'They should get... by newbuser on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @01:19PM (#16369373)

If your goal is affiliate clicks, why do views & mins of engagement matter?

Seems like the measure would be which platform generated more clicks that convert.

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Re:YouTube CEO on Facebook video ambitions: 'They should get... by kruhft on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @01:18PM (#16369353)

Pages are horrible money grabs and a waste.

Create a group. They get feed priority from what I've been able to gather.

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Re:YouTube CEO on Facebook video ambitions: 'They should get... by hornetblack on Friday February 16, 2018 @05:51AM (#16391467)

Also notifications.

All my notifications are groups these days.

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Re:YouTube CEO on Facebook video ambitions: 'They should get... by newbuser on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @01:24PM (#16369426)

Stats go back to 2013, but the oldest video appear be from 2017, what’s the deal?

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Re:YouTube CEO on Facebook video ambitions: 'They should get... by steve-benjamins on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @01:26PM (#16369445)

Back in 2013 I had published a few random, low-quality videos. Removed them when I started taking video seriously last November.

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Re:YouTube CEO on Facebook video ambitions: 'They should get... by dave84 on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @01:02PM (#16369225)

Is that all organic traffic?

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Re:YouTube CEO on Facebook video ambitions: 'They should get... by steve-benjamins on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @01:07PM (#16369262)

41% Youtube suggested videos

31% embeds on my website

19% Youtube search

3% Youtube browse features

3% Youtube channel page

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