YouTube is changing how it treats educational content. The algorithm is now prioritising novelty over repetition — and that matters, because repetition is how people learn.
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This is a major issue for us, with significant consequences for how we promote the ideas that matter to the Funding the Future team. We have realised we have to change how we produce video or face the prospect of reaching few people.
I’m going to have to stop saying the same old thing?
Perhaps YT isn’t the easy income stream he thought it would be.
Ritchie ragging aside, many creators have been hit with these changes. Many profitable channels (which means profitable for YouTube as well the creators) are losing viewers and revenue because someone has decided that the business model should be pointed elsewhere. The elsewhere seems to be AI slop; whether that works out long term I have no idea.
YouTube, Google, Microsoft, Adobe. All these companies built substantial userbases based on models that are now being replaced by other models that coincidentally cynically
exploit the living fuck out of the established userbase.
Microsoft CEO = Satya Narayana Nadella
Google CEO = Pichai Sundararajan
YouTube CEO = Neal Mohan
Adobe CEO = Shantanu Narayen
Enshitification.
Eh? Despite the hype, no one is tearing out Office 365 or Photoshop.
YouTube has never made a profit. And it’s just not at all hard to make and edit Bloke Talking To Camera videos. Lots of people don’t even care about making money from YouTube. It’s a marketing tool for other things.
YouTube was a loss leader for Google, but not any longer. It is now profitable and generates significant revenue, particularly through advertising and premium subscriptions. In 2024, YouTube generated over $36.1 billion in advertising revenue, and by 2025, annual revenue topped $60 billion.
By dedicating 2 hours daily to this online job, I brought in $16,453 last month. It’s incredibly simple to start and doesn’t require any specific skills, making it perfect for anyone. For a student like me, this has been the ultimate solution to balancing my studies and finances…
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That’s revenue, not profit. Although my last info on profit is many years out of date now.
Alphabet doesn’t break down its component parts so the fact is that no-one really knows (outside Alphabet) whether YouTube is profitable or not. But it seems pretty likely that it is.
They aren’t the only companies that have outsourced C-Suite roles to Elbonia. The one I currently work for has done just that and the recent ERP upgrade has left them with a system that is noticeably worse than the previous one.
Eventually they will all go to shit.
You might very well think that, I couldn’t possibly comment
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What if he opened an Only Fans page and did his videos stark bollock naked ?
Sales of “Mind Bleach” would rocket!
Repetition = replaying the video, you tit.
Translation: no one is watching my shit any more. He had a good spurt about a year ago when he was getting a few hundred thousand views (and in some case above 1m) for videos about the US and with the sort of hysterical keywords (crash, crisis, nightmare etc) loved by youtube doomscrollers.
Now he seems to be churning out videos daily but rarely getting more than 50k views and often less than 10k. That’s chump change territory.
Richard, here’s an idea: read an ad.
50k eyeballs even blind/resolutely shut ones are worth something.
“He had a good spurt about a year ago”
Argghh!!! Mind bleach!
Reminds me of Elton John’s last release…
Ummmmm… no… repetition is how the Thick “learn”….
Actual smart people don’t need going over the same tired old stuff indefinitely… They can pick up on the first go, and then integrate it into what they are already doing.
Then again…Spuddo doesn’t exactly fall into the “smart” category, in line with most “Academics”… Or Pulpit Pounders..
Maybe the polemical tw@t should cut down on the repeated and tedious references to fascist, far right and neoliberal then
He actually manages to be both novel and repetitious.
Stop lying, bullshitting, dribbling, and abusing people – and maybe also stop blocking half the internet. Like rats in London, we are never more than six feet from someone that twat has blocked.
25,000 on Twitter and 6 figures on his blog
Where are those figures from V_P?
Theo – apologies – travelling so I am
Late to answer. Postulating on the blog comments that anyone deemed ‘trolling’
Is automatically blocked. I did have a record of his blocks in Twitter (as it was then) from the mid 2010s -will see if I can dig it out – that’s calculated on him
Blocking at a steady rate since he was on the platform so it is a hypothetical.
changing how it treats educational content
Gamecock can translate commie manipulated language: antihuman bullshit propaganda is called ‘educational.’
How dare youtube mess with EDUCATIONAL videos?
Spud is hardly original in that… Tediously so, even…
Almost all propaganda is marketed as “educational” …. Usually to avoid the “political content” flag which has much stricter rules….
Given educational content is being affected, how exactly is this impacting him…?
The youtube algorithm exists solely to maximise the revenue for YouTube. This might come as a surprise in Ely, but it does not exist to feed the ego of emeritus potatoes nor does it care about the politics of care.
A man who feeds himself and his family from YouTube advertising, makes videos saying advertising is the devils work, moans that the advertising revenue is drying up. Another spud classic – he’s still got it.
Repetition is what I like. Over the last few days I’ve watched videos on the Hull to York line, the Hull to Holderness line, the Hull to Selby line, the Hull to Bridlington line….
Spud seems to have gained a convert in Zack Polanski (real name David Paulden):
● soak the ‘rich’
● equalise rates of income tax and CGT (with no inflation allowance)
● there’s no such thing as government debt, because it’s money we owe to ourselves
● money printer go brrrrr
Have I missed anything?
Yep. Klaus Schwab said, “You will own nothing and be happy.”
Murphy says, “You will own nothing.”
Thanks Gamecock.
So he thinks people use YouTube to learn by . . . watching the exact same video over and over and only if the video is spoon-fed them?
Or, people find a video with useful information – fed to them by ‘the algorithm’ and then bookmark that video so they can go back to reference it if necessary?
Hmm, could it be that people are clicking off his videos in the first couple of minutes so the algorithm is deprioritizing his content?