Platform Changes and Community Growth

Larry and Sergey ride their Segway’s off into the sunset, a new entrant in the streaming wars, more news from the re:Invent conference, YouTube says it’s algorithm change is working and the year that was, in the world of Reddit.

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Links:

• A letter from Larry and Sergey (The Keyword)
• GOOGLE’S THIRD ERA (The Verge)
• Plex launches a free, ad-supported streaming service in over 200 countries (TechCrunch)
• With Outposts, Local Zones, and Verizon, AWS looks beyond the cloud (Mostly Cloudy)
• YouTube says viewers are spending less time watching conspiracy videos. But many still do. (The Washington Post)
• Instagram to collect ages in leap for youth safety, alcohol ads (Reuters)
• Reddit's monthly active user base grew 30% to reach 430M in 2019 (TechCrunch)
• Subreddit That Hates on ‘Game of Thrones’ Is the Most Popular TV Subreddit of 2019 (The Wrap)

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