Episode 167 — YouTube and the End of Friction

Ben and James discuss the question of YouTube, why it’s similar and different from Facebook, and why engagement is both alluring and a potential problem.

Links

• YouTube Executives Ignored Warnings, Letting Toxic Videos Run Rampant — Bloomberg (bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-04-02/youtube…)

• Ben Thompson: Apple’s Services Event — Stratechery (stratechery.com/2019/apples-services-event)

• Ben Thompson: Mark Zuckerberg’s Proposal, The Copyright Directive and Sunk Costs — Stratechery Daily Update (stratechery.com/2019/mark-zuckerbergs-proposal…)

• Ben Thompson: YouTube and Toxic Videos, YouTube’s Problematic Incentives, Sins of Omission and Commission — Stratechery Daily Update (stratechery.com/2019/youtube-and-toxic-videos-…)

• Ben Thompson: Friction — Stratechery (stratechery.com/2013/friction)

• Ben Thompson: The Pollyannish Assumption — Stratechery (stratechery.com/2017/the-pollyannish-assumption)

• Ben Thompson: The Wall Street Journal and Apple News, The Problem with Regulating Content](stratechery.com/2019/the-wall-street-journal-a…)

Hosts

• Ben Thompson, @benthompson (twitter.com/benthompson), Stratechery (stratechery.com)

• James Allworth, @jamesallworth (twitter.com/jamesallworth), Harvard Business Review (hbr.org/search?term=James+Allworth&sort=po…)

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