OT: video thumbnails at the end of a Youtube video

Laurence wrote on 10/1/2009, 9:04 AM
This is sort of funny, but not to my wife. Here is a video that I already posted a while back. The point isn't the video, but the thumbnails at the end. Here's the situation. I just finished the video and had uploaded it. My 16 year old daughter walks into my studio. We start talking about funny Youtube videos and I show here one called "ugly people.com". The thumbnail for this video is a naked enormous fat lady on all fours. Funny stuff... except that now every time somebody watches my wife's non-profit video, this is the first thumbnail that shows up in the box at the end. There she is, in all her glory at the bottom left hand corner of the screen. I've tried watching my video, then watching a whole stream of wholesome family oriented education videos, but no luck. This lady still is the first link that anyone sees at the end. My wife is pissed. I don't want to delete and reupload it because the link is already in wide circulation. Anyone know how to get rid of this? In the future, I'll sign out of Youtube before I watch anything silly.

Comments

AlanC wrote on 10/1/2009, 9:22 AM
It could be the tags. Compare the Youtube tags for your video and the tags for the fat lady.
Tom Pauncz wrote on 10/1/2009, 9:24 AM
Laurence,
I don't use YouTube or view it much, but I imagine you could send a request to support.

I looked at your vid (very well done, BTW) and indeed that thumbnail shows up at the end. Seems it may be some categorizing glitch on their end as neither keywords nor category has any relationship between your vid and the one from that poster.

Good luck and I agree with your wife.
Tom
Laurence wrote on 10/1/2009, 9:26 AM
My tags are:

"give a kid backpack" "non profit" "not for profit". I don't think that's it.
Former user wrote on 10/1/2009, 7:08 PM
If you embed the video in your own webpage, you can eliminate the thumbnails at the end. There is a command for that. But I don't think you can do it when watching directly on youtube.

Dave T2
TheHappyFriar wrote on 10/1/2009, 7:23 PM
i have no clue why tube put that as a RECOMMENDED video to be with yours. IMHO, send them a message & ask why that happened. Your videos have nothing in common: not the title, tags, etc.
farss wrote on 10/2/2009, 2:16 AM
I think the problem is that YouTube base their recommendation on what people watch after they watch your video. So initially you created the problem. Watching different videos yourself after watching yours probably will not fool YouTube as it knows it's the same person. I've done my bit by watching some other video after watching yours. Of course if all of the people you've sent a link do actually think the shows not over until the fat lady sings then they're adding more votes for the fat lady.

Bob.
TheHappyFriar wrote on 10/2/2009, 6:08 AM
you think so? I took a look @ my tube videos and I can say that what it recommends I never watch: I don't watch video vegas tutorials, I didn't watch any of the other 48 hour film project movies, etc.
farss wrote on 10/2/2009, 6:25 AM
"you think so?"

I'm not certain however YouTube used to have a 'thing' that said 'other people who viewed this video also enjoyed...' or something to that effect. eBay and other things run by Google seem to use the same kind of logic.

I'm not saying it's what you watch, it's what people who watched that video went on to watch.

Certainly some of the things that YouTube recommends to me are quite out there, I have to agree that it's not entirely based on what I prefer to watch. Probably their algorithms are quite complex and secret.

Bob.
TheHappyFriar wrote on 10/2/2009, 6:45 PM
^^^^^^
that post must of reveled how it worked & the "man" got rid of it. :D
Laurence wrote on 10/2/2009, 6:51 PM
Well I definitely watched the ugly people video around the same time that I uploaded this video. Good thing I wasn't watching something even worse! ;-) If nothing else, I'll be a lot more careful in the future, especially when I'm uploading something.

I wouldn't be surprised if maybe the link started because I watched it, but then is continuing because enough other people are curious and following the link.
TGS wrote on 10/2/2009, 7:56 PM
I uploaded a video to YouTube and right after uploading, I got sidetracked by a sexy dancing chick video. That video showed up in the "Related" videos for about 2 weeks along with mine, which had absolutely nothing to do with sexy dancing.
There's a fair amount of BS in the way YouTube does things.