Google Preferred

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Google Preferred is a YouTube program that allows advertisers to pay to place their ads on high-performing videos on the site. [1] The program divides YouTube's most popular channels among 18- to 34-year-olds, comprising the most popular 5% of content on the site, into twelve categories. [2] Its purpose is to signal advertisers that they can trust a given channel in the program to produce high-quality content. [3]

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History

Google Preferred was announced at Google's 2014 Brandcast on April 30 in response to complaints from marketers that it was difficult to reach top-tier channels. [4] It was also introduced in an attempt by YouTube to increase artificial scarcity and ad revenue. [5] [6]

In March 2015, after Google Preferred proved highly successful in its first year, YouTube decided to keep using Google Preferred. [7] They implemented some minor changes to the program, however, such as reducing the number of categories from fourteen to twelve[ which? ]. [8] The program was also expanded to include other countries besides the United States, including Canada. [9]

In January 2018, stricter requirements were set, under which videos eligible for the program would be "manually curated", and only videos that meet YouTube's guidelines for advertiser-friendly content would be eligible. [10] The changes came in the wake of controversies affecting YouTube's advertising platform in 2017, including the appearance of ads on content deemed objectionable to advertisers, as well as a recent controversy surrounding Logan Paul's "suicide forest" video (which caused him to be removed from the program). [11] [12]

In August 2018, a report was published on fake video views which contributed to the concerns around YouTube's reputation and the need for a more advertiser-friendly product. [13] In May 2020, Google Preferred was rebranded as "YouTube Select" and phased out by the end of 2020. [14]

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