YouTube's "Trending"

babyteeth4 said:
YouTube's "annointed ones" (..............., Tyler Oakley, etc.)
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Talking about Tyler Oakley, every time I check out YouTube's twitter, they seem to be promoting this guy. I get it that he's a big YouTuber, but he gets waay more promotion than anyone else. I have nothing against him, but WTF.......
 
Crown said:
Talking about Tyler Oakley, every time I check out YouTube's twitter, they seem to be promoting this guy. I get it that he's a big YouTuber, but he gets waay more promotion than anyone else. I have nothing against him, but WTF.......
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I think a lot of that has to do with his management (Big Frame/Lisa Filipelli). Certain people in the industry have enough power to leverage it to get attention for their clients in print and social media. That's one of the reasons you always see the same people mentioned.
 
TheKays said:
I actually thought, 'Great! We now have Trending to help with smaller Youtubers..'. But nope, nothing trending about trending indeed.
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How would trending help smaller youtubers? If you're big enough to have a trending video..... then you don't really count as a small youtuber. It's like Youtube Red. It doesn't affect smaller Youtubers at all because they're obviously not big enough for Youtube to give them there own show... hence why we're called small youtubers.
 
I've been wondering about that tab... In the end of 2015, YouTube made a blog post related to their YouTube Rewind 2015, and their new trending tab.. They wrote a blurb about what they thought was "trending" in 2015: "Celebrate some of your favorite moments on YouTube through our official top trending videos of 2015, based on the amount of time people spent watching, sharing, commenting, liking, and more."

I guess the "and more" part lets them be extra ambiguous because there isn't anything else left on their list that viewers can do with a video. o_0 And we don't know if the criteria they had for trending videos in 2015 is the same as the criteria they're using with their trending tab...they just mention them in the same blog post...

Then they say at the bottom of their post, "...today we unveil the new YouTube Trending Tab. This new tab in your YouTube app delivers the top trending videos directly to your Android, iOS, and desktop device. It's the best way to catch the videos, creators, and trends that people watch, share, and talk about each and every day. See 'em as they take off and before they appear in YouTube Rewind 2016."

I guess maybe it's supposed to be a viral video detector of some sort? My trending tab is filled with American stuff -- I wonder if the trending tab is different based on what country you live in?
 
I hate everything made a pretty good video about this where he rants about this very thing. Trending is just filled with either already popular music, tv show hosts, and the average subscriber count for everyone showing up there is usually 500,000 +

Sigh would be nice if they tried to promote tubers under 1000 subs more :(

But I'm just being greedy and chasing mirages~
 
Although big channels are probably going to have a lot of videos pop up on the list, I suspect it isn't only to promote big YouTubers... Someone with 159 subs is "trending" right now for filming a helicopter crash. I wonder if YouTube is trying to find a way to display content from lesser-known YouTubers based on some sort of shared+watchtime/hour calculation relative to the channel size. This might eventually be a way to find lesser-known channels. ^^

Or maybe not. I guess we shall see! : D
 
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