Change in sight at YouTube. At the head of Google’s video platform since 2014, Susan Wojcicki, who joined the American group in 1999, has decided to leave her post. She will be replaced by Neal Mohan, Chief Product Officer of YouTube since 2015. For her part, if she plans to devote more time to her family and her personal projects, Susan Wojcicki will remain in the bosom of Google with an advisory role to the Mountain View firm.
During her nine years at the helm of YouTube, one of Silicon Valley’s most powerful leaders has worked to strengthen the platform to face competition from Netflix, Disney +, Spotify and Apple Music. The Google subsidiary has notably launched its YouTube Premium and YouTube Music offers. More recently, the video platform has also unsheathed the Shorts and Go Live Together features to counter TikTok and Twitch. Today, YouTube is worth nearly $30 billion in annual ad revenue, or about 10% of Google’s total revenue.