YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki steps down after nine years

YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down aft 9 years successful the role.

In a blog post, she said she had "decided to commencement a caller section focused connected my family, wellness and idiosyncratic projects I'm passionate about".

YouTube's main merchandise officer, Neal Mohan, volition instrumentality implicit arsenic caput of the Google-owned video platform.

"The clip is close for me, and I consciousness capable to bash this due to the fact that we person an unthinkable enactment squad successful spot astatine YouTube," Ms Wojcicki said.

Ms Wojcicki added she would proceed to enactment astatine YouTube successful the "short term" to "support Neal and assistance with the transition".

In her blog, she praised Mr Mohan's enactment launching YouTube TV, arsenic good arsenic starring YouTube Music, Premium, and Shorts.

At the invitation of Sundar Pichai, main enforcement of Google's genitor firm, Alphabet, Ms Wojcicki confirmed she would to "take connected an advisory relation crossed Google and Alphabet".

"This volition let maine to telephone connected my antithetic experiences implicit the years to connection counsel and guidance crossed Google and the portfolio of Alphabet companies," she said.

Ms Wojcicki became progressive with Google erstwhile the founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, acceptable up store successful the store of her location successful Silicon Valley successful 1998, becoming the company's archetypal selling manager a twelvemonth later.

A Google worker for astir 25 years, she was among the archetypal 20 employees astatine the tech elephantine - listed astatine fig 16.

During Ms Wojcicki's tenure astatine YouTube, she has faced nationalist disapproval implicit the platform's handling of contented moderation, the dispersed of misinformation, and ongoing concerns implicit kid privacy.

Fact-checking organisations astir the satellite accidental that YouTube is not doing enough to forestall the proliferation of misinformation connected the platform.

When she joined the online video level successful 2014, it had conscionable deed the milestone of 1 cardinal users. It presently hosts 2.5 cardinal users worldwide - with galore YouTube creators, besides known arsenic YouTubers, carving profitable careers retired of their idiosyncratic channels.

Jimmy Donaldson, amended known arsenic Mr Beast, was YouTube's highest-earning contented creator past year.

The young American made £45 cardinal successful gross gross successful 2022, much than immoderate YouTube creator successful the past of the level - according to caller estimates by Forbes magazine.

Ms Wojcicki is the latest successful a bid of high-profile tech executives to permission long-standing roles