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Source: The Verge
YouTube is abandoning its previous requirement that viewers watch 30 seconds before a view counts, shifting to Instagram and TikTok's model of counting plays on load. This inflates headline metrics across the platform, making creator and advertiser performance appear stronger while standardizing metrics across Google's competitive set. The trade-off: view counts become a weaker signal for actual engagement.
Source: Thelandingpad
Founders are replacing traditional interview formats with requests to see tangible work—a built tool, a YouTube channel, shipped code—because résumés and talking points have become too cheap to signal real capability. This mirrors how product-market fit itself works: if you can't demonstrate the thing you claim to do, the claim doesn't matter. Companies save weeks of interview theater by cutting directly to proof of execution. For early-stage hiring especially, this favors builders with visible portfolios over polished candidates, which reshuffles who gets called in and changes how people prepare for jobs.