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Kurt Wilms, senior director of product management at YouTube, said more creators are making highly produced, episodic content. Wilms leads teams responsible for YouTube's "living room" efforts.

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Heather Wishart-Smith is a board director who covers innovation. With only 100 subscribers his first year, it took five years for Ali-A to ...