Kevin Mayer , co-CEO of Candle Media , the company that owns CoComelon producer Moonbug Entertainment , has lamented the changeable nature of YouTube’s algorithm.

Speaking at the Royal Television Society’s Cambridge Convention, the former Disney executive said YouTube can slash kids studio Moonbug’s views by billions with small tweaks to its content promotion engine.

Mayer lauded the “incredible economy” YouTube has created in sharing ad revenue, but he raised concerns about its dominance as the biggest TV platform in the U.S.

“YouTube’s become more difficult. They’re hard to deal with at times. They have good intentions, but they tweak their algorithm, and all of a sudden, instead of 12 billion views, we get 9 billion views that month,” Mayer explained. “The power and the glob

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