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Re:On YouTube’s recommendation system by steveklabnik on Friday September 17, 2021 @03:14PM (#28569754)
It seems like YouTube has realized that winner-takes-all is bad for the health of the platform, and is trying to grow smaller creators. I suspect they won't do this, because they realize that it ultimately strangles growth. Mr. Beast (for example) is already spending about $4MM/month on making videos; if they allowed this kind of stuff, well... not many people could compete.

We'll see though!

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Re:On YouTube’s recommendation system by cma on Friday September 17, 2021 @03:33PM (#28569989)
After I made the post I remembered they already do it. Brands can pay to sponsor existing videos that put them in a good light. These recomendations do have an [Ad] tag, but the extra views and impressions are allow to feed into the algorithm which then doesn't have to maintain the [Ad] tag going forward:

https://support.google.com/google-ads/thread/10007177/using-...

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Re:On YouTube’s recommendation system by frosted-flakes on Friday September 17, 2021 @10:10PM (#28572950)
Occasionally I will see a "Rising Creator" section on the Explore/Trending page showcasing a single channel. This channel typically has less than 5k subscribers and posts regularly.
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