Product design question
Design Youtube for concert lovers.
- YouTube
- Product design
- Medium
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What this question tests
Product design for a passionate niche audience within an existing large platform, using structure over a brand-new app.
How to approach it
- Clarify the user: fans who watch live concert footage, festival recaps, and fan-uploaded show recordings, a real and sizable YouTube niche.
- Identify pain points: hard to discover full, high-quality concert videos amid clips and reactions, and no easy way to find footage of a specific show or setlist.
- Prioritize discovery and organization, since the content already exists but is poorly structured for this use case.
- Propose a structured Concerts hub with metadata-driven search by artist, venue, tour date, and setlist, from existing titles and creator tagging.
- Add a community layer: setlist-synced timestamps or comments so fans can jump to a specific song within a full concert video.
- Define success as watch time on concert-tagged content and search-to-watch conversion for concert queries.
What a strong answer includes
- Grounds the idea in a real YouTube content category, concert bootlegs and festival footage, that already exists but is poorly organized.
- Proposes structured metadata and tagging as the mechanism, realistic given YouTube's existing creator tools.
- Adds a concrete engagement layer, setlist-synced navigation, specific to concerts, not generic to all video.
Common mistakes
- Proposing a brand-new app or platform instead of a feature within existing YouTube, missing the scope of the question.
- Ignoring copyright and licensing issues around concert footage, a real constraint for this content category.
Likely follow-up questions
- How would you handle copyright claims on fan-uploaded concert footage?
- How would you get artists or labels to embrace this instead of blocking it?
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