These are all products that I legitimately like and want to engage with, but linking them all to a single account and more importantly a shared recommendation engine feels very flawed.

My music playlists from Youtube Music keep showing up on my Youtube homepage. Likewise, engaging with Youtube Shorts (especially subscribing) also subscribes to their youtube channel. I don’t know about anyone else, but what I find interesting in a 30 second video is not what I find interesting in a 10-30 minute video.

I feel like Google would be better served separating these recommendation engines. Even looking at this from a monetization lens, it feels inefficient. How do you guys feel? If you have any hacks or recommendations I’d love to hear them. I’m personally ready to create a TikTok account just to avoid contaminating my youtube feed.

  • GormadtEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I miss Google Play Music, it was way better in terms of recommending music and plus you could buy albums to gain access to them if they, for example, had rights issues in terms of streaming.

    There’s literally artist who I used to listen to just fine on Play Music that I now can’t listen to their albums anymore because they’re still not on YouTube Music.

    And Play Music’s algorithm for continuous play was way better than YouTube Music.

    For a quick example of albums that are broke on YouTube music, Breakfast in America by Supertramp. On YouTube Music the album is missing 3 songs, I have to go to someone’s playlist they put together to listen to the album in full. On Play Music I could just buy the album to fix that problem but now I can’t.

    And yeah the cross contamination of content on the 3 platforms is also annoying.

    The shorts thing is because many YouTubers only have 1 channel that they upload a mixture of content to their channel, so shorts and full length videos get mixed in when you sub. Which makes sense.