YouTube’s MacTaggart pitch: don’t regulate us like the TV giants we’ve become

At the Edinburgh TV Festival’s MacTaggart Lecture, YouTube EMEA VP Pedro Pina opposed a proposed U.K. Media Bill that would force YouTube to boost recommendations for BBC and ITV content, arguing it would suppress independent creators.

Why it matters. If Pina's lobbying beats the Media Bill, UK public broadcasters lose the regulatory lever they were counting on to force algorithmic visibility on the platform now topping Nielsen's Gauge.

Signal from tubefilter.com · Sam Gutelle · read the original.

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