YouTube’s Neal Mohan is trying to police the world’s largest video site + Game of Thrones is gone. What’s next?

Channels with Peter Kafka

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Business News, News, Tv & Film, Technology

4.4 • 585 Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Neal Mohan, Chief Product Officer at YouTube talks to Peter Kafka about how YouTube deals with problematic content: how it enforces the site’s community guidelines, and deploys machines to detect, and humans to evaluate this content. YouTube users upload 500 hours of content every minute, and YouTube has no plans to slow that down, so the job won't get an easier; the site takes down 8-9 million videos every quarter. They also discuss the strategy around YouTube's subscription service and its TV service. Also on the show, Vox’s Todd VanDerWerff’s take on Game of Thrones, and his new podcast, Primetime. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:37.6	This is Recode Media with Peter Kafka.
1:38.6	That is me.
1:43.0	I'm talking to you from Vox Media headquarters in New York City, but just for a second, because we're going to go back in time
1:44.4	to California, where I interviewed Neil Mohan, chief product officer at YouTube. It basically
1:50.5	means he's the number two guy at YouTube. We did this interview at YouTube headquarters in San
1:55.4	Bruno, which is a thoroughly unremarkable place, but YouTube is there. So that was good.
2:18.2	If this conversation sounds fast, sped up, it's because we had a limited amount of time, so I'd just speak quickly with Neil. I'm glad I got the time I got, because Neil's an important guy, and I had a lot of questions for him. Not sure I always got the answers, but at least I got to ask him those questions. Maybe we'll have a longer chat at some other time.
2:22.3	Anyway, here is me and Neil and San Bruno at YouTube headquarters.
2:24.4	Hi, Neil.
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