{"id":994593,"date":"2026-02-25T10:18:53","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T04:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=994593"},"modified":"2026-02-25T11:24:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T05:54:22","slug":"youtube-exec-says-goal-was-viewer-value-not-addiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/25\/youtube-exec-says-goal-was-viewer-value-not-addiction\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube exec says goal was viewer value not addiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A landmark social media addiction trial resumed Monday with a YouTube executive insisting that the Google-owned company&#8217;s aim was to give people value, not hook them on harmful binge-viewing.<\/p>\n<p>YouTube vice president of engineering Cristos Goodrow was pressed to defend the company&#8217;s self-styled &#8220;big, hairy, audacious goal,&#8221; set more than a decade ago, to increase viewer time to more than a billion hours a day by 2016.<\/p>\n<p>As he did last week when Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg testified in the same Los Angeles court, plaintiff&#8217;s attorney Mark Lanier told jurors that Goodrow&#8217;s compensation climbed with his company&#8217;s share price, meaning he profited personally from ramping up user engagement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A landmark social media addiction trial resumed Monday with a YouTube executive insisting that the Google-owned company&#8217;s aim was to give people value, not hook them on harmful binge-viewing. YouTube vice president of engineering Cristos Goodrow was pressed to defend the company&#8217;s self-styled &#8220;big, hairy, audacious goal,&#8221; set more than a decade ago, to increase viewer time to more than a billion hours a day by 2016. As he did last week when Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg testified in the same Los Angeles court, plaintiff&#8217;s attorney Mark Lanier told jurors that Goodrow&#8217;s compensation climbed with his company&#8217;s share price, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-994593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=994593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=994593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=994593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=994593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}