Positives:
* Presided over a vast increase in revenue, from $4 to $29 billion
* Steered the ship through a number of content controversies
* Anecdotally, the brand value of YouTube remains good
* YouTube Premium seems to have good uptake
* Presided over enormous cost savings with custom encoder hardware
* Few major technical outages, good streaming performance generally
* Relationships with advertisers and content creators generally remain good
Negatives:
* Missed the Twitch/streaming wave
* Missed the TikTok, short video wave
* YouTube Originals flopped (partly bc they didn't commit hard enough, not like Netflix or Amazon)
* Overall low user experience - slow/complex website and apps
* Issues for content creators - overly aggressive ContentID, not rewarding short but valuable videos enough (indie animation), opaque demonetization rules
* No shrinking of the algorithmic filter bubble
* Presided over a vast increase in revenue, from $4 to $29 billion
* Steered the ship through a number of content controversies
* Anecdotally, the brand value of YouTube remains good
* YouTube Premium seems to have good uptake
* Presided over enormous cost savings with custom encoder hardware
* Few major technical outages, good streaming performance generally
* Relationships with advertisers and content creators generally remain good
Negatives:
* Missed the Twitch/streaming wave
* Missed the TikTok, short video wave
* YouTube Originals flopped (partly bc they didn't commit hard enough, not like Netflix or Amazon)
* Overall low user experience - slow/complex website and apps
* Issues for content creators - overly aggressive ContentID, not rewarding short but valuable videos enough (indie animation), opaque demonetization rules
* No shrinking of the algorithmic filter bubble