YouTube’s VP Of Engineering Just Answered Creators’ Recommendation Algorithm FAQs
https://www.tubefilter.comIn a new upload from Creator Insider, the platform pulled back the veil on its content surfacing systems, bringing in vice president of engineering Cristos Goodrow to answer a series of creator- and user-submitted questions about how and why YouTube decides to recommend certain channels and videos.
Some of the questions were
- If YouTube’s systems prioritze total overall watch time or individual user retention.
- How long does it take new videos to get picked up by the recommendation algorithm?
- Why is YouTube more likely to recommend big channels instead of growing ones?
- etc
