• dracs
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    7 months ago

    I believe Steve has said that he hates the title/thumbnails too. But Google’s algorithms heavily incentives them, so he reluctantly uses them while maintaining the good quality content.

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      7 months ago

      Veritasim and other very popular YouTubers have empirically verified that clickbaity and thumbnails with faces results in higher view-through rates.

      I think Veritasim actually went into the science of clickbait, specifically thumbnails and why certain images respond better than others.