Onwards and upwards: Navigating the changing product landscape 🚀
Have you noticed that product management is taking a bit of a beating at the moment?
There’s currently a lot of noise about the effectiveness of product managers, noise that started with Elon Musk firing product teams at Twitter. This was followed by Brian Chesky revealing that Airbnb had ditched its classic product management function to combine it with product marketing. And anecdotally, we hear stories of product leaders being asked to justify their existence to their C-suite, and rumours of businesses reassessing their product management function.
What’s going on? Has product management changed, or perhaps it needs to?
Time To Read: 6 Minutes
Published: August 2023
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YouTube Music redesigned its “Now Playing” screen recently, with the most notable update being a new comments section, which allows users to read and write comments directly from the app. The latest upgrade also includes easily accessible buttons, larger cover art and more.
The redesign is rolling out to iOS and Android devices today, per a company spokesperson.
As spotted by 9to5Google, YouTube Music launched a new comments button that shows existing comments from the official music video on YouTube. Users can also type their own, which adds a more engaging social component to the app.
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