Susan Wojcicki has recently announced her departure from her position as the CEO of YouTube after nine years. Wojcicki has been associated with Google for 25 years. And during her professional career, she has worked on marketing, co creation of the image search engine, and AdSense. She spent the last nine years at the company as the CEO of YouTube. In a note to employees, Wojcicki summarized her and her team’s achievements. And explained that she now wants to focus on family, health, and personal projects that she is passionate about.
Wojcicki has also announced that Neal Mohan will replace her as the CEO of YouTube. Wojcicki has collaborated with Mohan for 15 years, and in recent years. Mohan has been the product director of YouTube, playing an important role in introducing YouTube Premium and YouTube Shorts. Also, wojcicki intends to support Mohan in his new position to ensure a smooth transition.
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During Wojcicki’s tenure, YouTube underwent many changes and innovations, making it difficult to summarize them all. However, let’s focus on the decisions made in the last few months that had the greatest impact on the convenience of using the platform.
One of the changes that caused controversy was the elimination of the downvote counter. Google wanted to prevent harassment of new creators. And conducted an experiment that showed that users are less likely to give negative ratings when the counter is invisible. However, the lack of showing the number of negative ratings aroused ridicule among some YouTube users and the creators themselves.
Like other popular online platforms, YouTube has been focusing more than before on fighting disinformation. And removing videos that do not comply with the platform’s rules. The site has removed materials linking the 5G network with the coronavirus, promoting hatred and conspiracy theories. However, the website itself has made mistakes while cleaning up the platform, such as deleting popular science channels.
