I just love things the variety of things that fall outside the google-ads algos its so easy to silo our "content" from platforms like this. I browse marginalia [0] just to spice it up and see what else there is out there.
Youtube also has tons of long-form 1+ hours content. There's a recent machine learning video that's 25+ hours long and it's not hidden away in obscurity. It's prominently listed on the 1st page of search results for "deep learning tutorial" : https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=deep+learning+t...
As another example, I got a friend exposed to sewing channels on Youtube. Some content creators create hour-long "sew alongs" which she watches every week now to learn new techniques. It fills in a gap left behind by Public Television since they don't air sewing shows anymore.
Lots of long-form videos in car repairs, woodworking, etc.
EDIT ADD: the 25-hour deep learning video example is this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_ikDlimN6A
... which was also copied to freeCodeCamp.org channel (the 12th recently uploaded video) :
I would be careful with statements like this. I believe that the Youtube search results are tuned by your personal viewing history, and of course just on a general basis the results are subject to change. I don't see the video you are talking about when I do that search, but then I don't know what you mean by 'on the 1st page' since it is an infinite scroll.
I took some time to peruse the list after topics for which I took formal education and could not find a single useful channel.
The only very few exceptions to the rule are MIT OCW kind of channels where universities include playlists with footage of undergraduate courses.
Not sure how to report an incorrect listing on your site, would be good to better surface how to do that.
IIRC Indian English has almost 250m speakers, which is in the same ballpark as what we'd call American English and has its own, distinct features as much as AmE vs. BrE.
Edit: added context
We have a few popular anatomy channels in different languages[0], but I couldn’t find any of our videos when searching for “anatomy” and also results were quite mixed. Some videos were quite unrelated or very loosely related at best.
[0] main one in English https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHn_K1zOBYZqtmIYkXLEIQw
And on the second page for the anatomy keyword https://limnology.co/en/languages/en/keywords/anatomy?page=2
I think it got somewhat downranked because of the recent views/subscribers mismatch
> I think it got somewhat downranked because of the recent views/subscribers mismatch
Can you explain what you mean? also what about higher ranked results that don’t match the topic that closely? are you relying on YouTube’s ranking for keywords or do your own?
It would be cool to be able to find similar channels in other languages, but I can see how that would be challenging.
We will probably have similar for eyeballs one day but they may be more invasive.
The German version is a little meh. Top categories are something like “howto”. It seems like you used a very simple word-based algorithm to create the categories?
One suggestion is to include video length in the individual video display, as most of the very short videos aren't that useful.
It should be the St. George's cross, or at the very least (and most practically) the Union Jack.
…but then it might be replaced by an Indian or Nigerian flag in a few decades :)
- search box on every sub page
- allow for reverse search of channels I know (so I can check out similar channels)
What source are you getting the channels from?
And how do you choose which channel goes in?
If anyone is hiring and someone says they did UX at YT - do not hire them.
Unless you and your business care more about monies than what people say on social media, and your company is suddenly making more money then... I guess hire them?
