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Todd B.

@toddb.com

Product lead for YouTube homepage and recommendations since 2014. Opinions are my own, not my employer's.

Todd B. @toddb.com · 23/09/2026

Merriam-Webster disagrees: compute noun : the computational resources (such as memory and processing power) required for a computer or computer program to function

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Todd B. @toddb.com · 23/02/2025

Many of the issues you describe are not specific to algorithmic feeds, and have persisted in broadcast media for decades.

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Todd B. @toddb.com · 08/02/2025

$70 billion paid to content creators and media companies in the last 3 years via revenue sharing. Not strictly content development, since the content is already developed when the revenue is generated, but it surely has a huge impact on the investment in content, which is controlled by creators.

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Todd B. @toddb.com · 01/01/2025

Happy 2025! Tell me something you think I should know but don't. I love to learn!

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Todd B. @toddb.com · 13/12/2024

YouTubers giving MIT commencement speeches two of the last three years!

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Todd B. @toddb.com · 13/12/2024

Then one foggy Christmas Eve, Santa came to say: "Frosty, with your frozen glow, Guide my sleigh through ice and snow!" Oh, how the snow gals loved him, As they shouted out with glee, "Frosty the Snowman’s glow-job Saved Christmas night, you see!"

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Todd B. @toddb.com · 13/12/2024

...And though it wasn’t Rudolph’s, It could light up when it froze. Olive, the other reindeer, Used to laugh and call him names, Till Frosty showed his glow-job Could guide the sleigh the same.

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Todd B. @toddb.com · 21/11/2024

Ok, I am back. What did I miss? What's next?

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Todd B. @toddb.com · 05/07/2023

Testing. 1... 2... 3... Is this thing on?

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