YouTube Algorithms Algorithms – Pre 2012 The specifics of YouTube’s recommendation algorithm is a heavily-researched but tightly-kept secret. From the site’s inception, YouTube has been recommending videos based on the current content you are watching. On a...
YouTube, Let’s Plays, and Content Creators Early Platform YouTube is a free video upload and streaming service that went live in February of 2005, and was acquired by Google a year and a half later. The structure of YouTube is such that anyone can upload and display...
Participatory Culture in YouTube A similar bastion of research tying into Let’s Play and YouTube video creation is participatory culture (Jenkins). Put simply, participatory culture is the idea that a backbone of many types of emerging cultures (fandoms, etc.) are...
