I doubt it would. The modern style of binging on-demand streaming content seems to be too effective at capturing attention. Remember that lots of people get notifications on their phone the instant a new video comes out for a subscribed channel, especially kids and teens who haven't developed resistance to these business models.
YT would be unlikely to spend any effort implementing an alternate mode that doesn't capture attention as effectively; the old model of live channels is likely a niche preference. If somehow this did prove to be more effective at capturing attention, I could see it being implemented, but that would surprise me.
Most things or demos I send are horizontal, but I agree, the automatic shorts of vertical is annoying
(cue Buggles..)
My other wishlist item was that Netflix would offer a “shuffle” this series option. For standalone episodic shows, ordering does not matter, and it is a bunch of overhead to pick something.
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I use it all the time for shows that have self-contained episodes (e.g. Futurama).
I highly doubt it. They're going to wait for competitors to implement it and have it for several years before they bother to poorly copy the idea.
It was essentially a 24/7 livestream which played from their back catalogue, with the ability to add "promo" segments in between videos, which they used for products on their merch store.
Seemed to dissapear around the same time the whole monoblock scandal and production shutdown happened last year, so I'm not sure if the YouTube experiment also concluded or if they turned it off during the shutdown.
I predict this appears as real youtube feature soon. Since it will also allow them to do a Spotify-style payola approach to scheduling.