Smythe posted:

thnx. my high school grades were super fail lol

FMguru posted:

rohnert park wal mart is the hillbilliest place ive ever been

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YouTube is about to begin a mass cull of music videos by artists including Adele and the Arctic Monkeys, after a number of independent record labels refused to sign up to the licensing terms for its new subscription service. The Google-owned company will start blocking videos “in a matter of days” to ensure that all content on the platform is governed by its new contractual terms, said Robert Kyncl, YouTube’s head of content and business operations.

Record labels representing 90 per cent of the music industry have signed up to the new terms, Mr Kyncl said. The remaining 10 per cent, which are asking European regulators to intervene, will be blocked from the platform. “While we wish that we had 100 per cent success rate, we understand that is not likely an achievable goal and therefore it is our responsibility to our users and the industry to launch the enhanced music experience,” Mr Kyncl told the Financial Times.

The new paid-for tier will be part of YouTube’s existing apps and websites, which have more than 1bn monthly visitors. For a monthly fee, users will be able to watch videos or listen to music without adverts, on any of their devices, even when not connected to the internet. YouTube will start Google-wide internal testing of its new subscription-based offering in the coming days, Mr Kyncl said. This will allow the company to polish the user interface and remove any bugs, before making it available to the public later in the summer.

[...]


Mr Kyncl said YouTube was offering all rights holders a good deal, though he did not go into details of the contracts. “We’re paying them fairly and consistently with the industry,” he said.
But many independent labels, which are represented by the rights agency Merlin, disagree. XL Recordings, whose artists include Adele and The XX, and Domino, the label behind the Arctic Monkeys, are understood to be among the indie labels holding out for a better deal. Impala, a trade body for independent music companies, is appealing to the European Commission for assistance, arguing that YouTube has abused a dominant position in the market to force small record labels into accepting unfavourable terms.

One label boss said the big problem with YouTube’s new licensing agreement was not to do with the paid tier, but rather that it allowed YouTube to make substantial enhancements to its free tier. His fear is that YouTube’s free tier will become so attractive that it will reduce the number of people willing to pay for subscription services such as Spotify or Deezer. Mr Kyncl said such concerns were unfounded. YouTube’s “ultimate goal” is to make “features that fans love” and drive as many people as possible to paying for them, he said. Since it was acquired by Google in 2006, YouTube has paid out more than $1bn to the music industry through licensing deals that allow rights holders to take a share of its advertising revenues. “That number is going to double soon,” said Mr Kyncl.

Vagrancy posted:

duTrieux. posted:

preeeeeeety sure this is blatantly monopolistic

Shifty Pony posted:

Tying one service on the condition of accepting another is illegal tho. Enforcement would break jus about the entire tech industry however.

Shifty Pony posted:

Tying one service on the condition of accepting another is illegal tho. Enforcement would break jus about the entire tech industry however.

Avenging Dentist posted:

all the more reason to do it and watch the hellstorm

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I've served on a number of promotions committees so I have some idea of how the sausage is made. Every promotion case gets reviewed by a committee of several Googlers who are above the level at which the promotion decision is being made. (So if you're going up for promotion to L5, the committee would be people L6 or above.) Different levels have different expectations of what constitutes a strong promotion case. Launching something is one of the best ways to get promoted; but of course, launches vary in terms of scope, complexity, and impact. Launching a tweak to the Slovenian-to-Finnish translation backend might get you promoted to L4, but not to L6.

computer parts posted:

that sounds just like every company

cremnob posted:

engineering incentive structure

Dicky B posted:

advertisers need to learn to gently caress off and die

AWWNAW posted:

does advertising actually like... work on anyone whose mouth isn't perpetually hanging open

rotor posted:

who's gonna pay for the stuff you get for free then

rotor posted:

not in a "just saw an ad, gonna go buy a thing now" way, no

theadder posted:

u

rotor posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OVr3EfB_z8

rotor posted:

who's gonna pay for the stuff you get for free then

cremnob posted:

Former employee here. I had a very opposite experience. New features were key for promotion. Performance/stability tweaks or bug fixes would only add to your promotion chances if they had a demonstrably large impact.

I wasn't at that level but this was super true for L5-L6ish engineers or above. Yes they had to tackle bugs, but they weren't getting to L6 unless they led a huge effort within a project, or L7 unless they launched a project with a solid impact.

Management made efforts to give more weight to refactoring, but it seemed like a token effort. Refactoring was thankless unless it was a truly gargantuan change.

Working there was great, but the engineering incentive structure is far from perfect.


lol

Necc0 posted:

in googels defense that poo poo IS hard

cremnob posted:

lmao why every google product is poo poo


http://matt-welsh.blogspot.ca/2014/06/the-google-career-path-part-3.html

The Management posted:

Progressive JPEG posted:

hey i saw a volvo stationwagon on the 280 yesterday weaving through lanes with a nurburgring logo on the back

was it u

Cocoa Crispies posted:

the best way to get promoted is to launch something

therefore

fixing things isn't worth your time

makes sense really

Miley Virus posted:

almost as if that contributes to google's "launch it then shut it down a year later" methodology

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

advertising is extremely effective if your decisionmaking gland is fatigued after around 20 minutes of shopping or if you're at all hungry

the resultant impulse purchasing holds for everything from candybars to electronics


younger men (teens to 20s iirc) are particularly susceptible to visual advertising and apparently respond best to reds and blues and black and metallics

women are supposed to respond best to high saturation colors (so-called "gem" colors) and lots of white space



modern ad psychology is terrifying

get 24/7 urkel cosplay in here that's his jam

Sappy Fingers posted:

imagine how much wasted human talent and effort is spent improving the marketing industry rather than psychology, social policy/work, etc. it's really sad imo

cremnob posted:

the management incompetence

Sappy Fingers posted:

imagine how much wasted human talent and effort is spent improving the marketing industry rather than psychology, social policy/work, etc. it's really sad imo