Youtube Asks You to Stay Awhile

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John_Keck

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With the average viewer spending only 15 minutes a day on YouTube, people over at YouTube are getting a bit jealous of the TV and people’s five hour a day average.
This fall, YouTube says it will introduce a radically different, uncluttered look, with YouTube Leanback. It will have a separate Web address and will start playing a video the moment a user clicks on the site. When one video ends, another will start automatically, eliminating those dreaded “decision points” that invite abandonment. Viewers will be able to select channels, but the flow of programs, whether short or long, will be continuous.
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First few videos load up fast, the rest load at around 100kb/sec.

No use in waiting for half an hour to load a single HD video. If they fixed their buffering, more people would use it.
 
I don't see that making me want to stay any longer since I doubt the vids they'll play are ones I'm interested in seeing.

"There’s no browsing, no searching, no clicking. It behaves like you would expect television to,” said Hunter Walk, a Youtube program manager...
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That's what makes Youtube interesting for me. Browsing and searching for content that I want to watch. If I wanted to watch tv then I would have cable and watch tv. I guess making money is the bottom line so Youtube becomes an even more vanilla flavoured site.
 
You tube would have longer visits if more of us had real broadband options.. 5 gigs a month via wireless and NO landline option, topped off with plans of dsl caps from ATT will just equal even less time spent on their page..

Technical regression is part of the blame for their worry!
 
Was I the only one that heard: "Stay awhile and listen" in Cain's voice, when I read the title?
 
Youtube won't go far if they keep using crapware like Adobe Flash and run scripts that actively defeat the system's power options.
 
reb00tin said:
Youtube won't go far if they keep using crapware like Adobe Flash and run scripts that actively defeat the system's power options.
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Sorry, but for me HTML 5 is a lot more crappy than Flash right now (using Chrome). I fail to understand why people criticize YouTube for using Flash when no reasonable alternative exists.
 
If they want a good site they'll make their own version of Stage6. Google can afford it.

If they want to make money I don't see how showing one video after another and making people click/browse less will help with ad money. The time beyond 15 minutes will just be bandwidth.

But if they put in commercials/messages longer than 5 seconds, that is one of the easiest ways to make an experience NOT laid back, especially if the HDTV is involved.
 
Tell tjhem to stop banning content that I like and I may stay a while longer!
 
This doesn't seem like a web analytical issue, more like a bandwidth issue. making this change might help a little but doubtful.
 
I watch very little TV, mostly when the g/f is watching...otherwise I download the shows I want to see.
 
Seems really pointless. Now if they had a continuous stream of all the MST3K videos on YouTube, that I could get behind.
 
Average tv program costs $1 million to make.
Average youtube video costs 5 cents to make.

Gee, I wonder why people don't want to spend hours watching youtube.
 
Huan said:
You tube would have longer visits if more of us had real broadband options.. 5 gigs a month via wireless and NO landline option, topped off with plans of dsl caps from ATT will just equal even less time spent on their page..

Technical regression is part of the blame for their worry!
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Maybe stagnation, not regression. I live out in what used to be considered the boonies but now I have a 12mbps connection through comcast. It's surprisingly good and fairly price. :)
 
youtube fucked up when they stopped displaying the star rating system.

now, I don't even know if i'm clicking on a 1-star video, or a 5-star video, until i've clicked it.

it's a waste of clicks, and a waste of my time.
 
dr.kevin said:
youtube fucked up when they stopped displaying the star rating system.

now, I don't even know if i'm clicking on a 1-star video, or a 5-star video, until i've clicked it.

it's a waste of clicks, and a waste of my time.
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Not to mention waste of bandwidth. Screw the like/dislike bar.

Which reminds me,
hey Youtube, how 'bout putting 1080p support on the back burner 'til you solve your bandwidth issues, k?
 
John_Keck said:
With the average viewer spending only 15 minutes a day on YouTube, people over at YouTube are getting a bit jealous of the TV and people’s five hour a day average.
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I think this would be a very nice improvement. I DO feel that youtube is horridly cluttered and a generally lousy user experience. It's too easy to digress from your initial search with the way they introduce related videos, etc.
 
cliche said:
Nope I heard Stay a while, Stay forever from Impossible Mission on the C64 and Spectrum 48k back in the 80's
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"Kill him, my robots."

If we're the only ones who thought of Prof. Elvin Atombender, I think we're showing our age, cliche.
 
wtf they limit the videos for 10 minutes thats why I only spend 15 minutes a day on youtube.

up the cap to 2 hours and success will be had.

stupid youtube is stupid, i dont want to watch mindless 2-10 minute randomness for 5 hours.
 
I love Youtube, but at the moment what makes me leave after a while is the fact that the comment system is very much broken at the moment

It worked fine before, but when the went to the new layout it stopped working about 70% of the time for me (at home, at work, Internet Explore, Firefox).
 
BTW, there is alot of educational stuff on Youtube. Charlie Bit My Finger is nice and so is Angry Video Game Nerd, but they also have Stanford Class Lecture, National Geographic, Science Lessons, PBS Nova, etc. You can learn alot watching Youtube
 
typezero303 said:
Was I the only one that heard: "Stay awhile and listen" in Cain's voice, when I read the title?
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Wait... You mean there are people that didn't?

OP: Why would I want to take away the one thing that made youtube different from TV??

No I don't want some douche bag deciding what I want to watch for me.
 
youtube has good vids to watch, but like the rest of the internet, the diamonds are buried under megatons of crap
 
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