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Just something I noticed in the beginning the music and visuals picked up a bit too early and distracted me from what you were saying to the point where I actually didn’t hear it at all (use the visuals to reinforce your point not crowd it)
Hack 1: Use intrigue Hack 2: Challenge the viewer’s beliefs Hack 3: Use images of famous people Hack 4: To prevent clickbait, feature clips of said famous person at the start of the video Hack 5: Use contrast Hack 6: Keep to 3 main colours Hack 7: Test a few thumbnails / Use prediction AI Creator ML
I wish I could describe how much these videos help and how good they are where it feels like I'm not watching a tutorial, I've been watching many of your videos and I'm serious and trying to grow my channel. I've learned so much and I just want to thank you, because one day, I'm going to be big on YT
I know this is supposed to inspire me, Ed, but James put so much effort into the thumbnail that I'm exhausted at the idea of doing this for my channel. I am an expert in my field. I share my knowledge simply to help others. But the idea of spending hours and hours in a desperate attempt to get others to help themselves... ... God. I don't know. Maybe after 2+ years of beating my head against the RU-vid wall and still not getting monetized just trying to help others means I should just give up. After all, Diablo 4 and Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom just came out. ... All my belly-aching aside, this was a positively fantastic video, gentlemen!
This is so true...I spend hours sometimes making various versions of my thumbnails to only then come up with totally different idea at the last minute and go with that. And amazingly, a great thumbnail on a "less than stellar" video will invariably outperform a mediocre thumbnail on a great video. So yeah, make better thumbnails! Easier said than done 😅
You’re a genius. I just realised that this is why car channels such as @Carwow would have a different colour vehicle in the thumbnail than the one they’re actually reviewing. 🤯
Watched one of your videos. Enough to make me subscribe, I find it not easy to try get monetized but so happy that other creators give so much great advice
Hi Ed, I think that’s not only I’ve been learning a lot from your videos, but I learnt a lot more on how to improve audience retention by studying your style! Thanks so much! I started few vids ago to add graphics on my videos, but more on a Finzar style. Hi Finzar 👋. But thanks to you I found out that memes aren’t really perfect for my audience so I now decided to film my Brolls and use something more standard. Although since the introduction of graphics my videos went from a record of %30 retention to %60+ on my last video 😮. Can’t wait to beat my own new record 😊.
This was actually brilliant. I've never watched a tutorial or educational video that had me this engaged. I aspire to make content at this level. Thanks for sharing!
I wanted to say : Thank you for all your Videos and the Hard work you put in them for us, i am still new to this, but with your guidance, tips and help you make our confusing and frustrating times actually enjoyable ☺
I liked this video our strategy for video creation is to come up with the idea. Then make the intro and then a thumbnail title to compliment that into and flesh out the rest after those are satisfied
You know.. after watching a lot of these videos, I just noticed that its pretty similar to how we do icons for games in the app stores. Most of the times, the characters faces and objects with a light background, and the colors popping up are the ones that work the best.. and out of the 4 thumbnails you presented to the "judges" .. yours was the one that clearly had brighter colors, and a certain object could stand out pretty easily, and when looking at Jimmy's thumbnails and other examples , you can see very similar things as well.. interesting! ty for the videos they are great!
I understand the underlying reason to include a story in the video (the Marques control story), but man in this kind of videos I just want the juicy info well compacted without any additional stuff.
The B-roll at 3:50 had me laughing out loud - such a hilarious bit just in the background of the voice over. Subscribed for that incredible attention to detail alone. Thanks for all the valuable tips!
So the key to a good thumbnail is to build your own boutique advertising design studio. I used to work as a designer for a Hollywood design shop and your process is exactly the same as creating a movie poster, or any other ad campaign. It makes sense...I just wish I could get myself to do that kind of work again. It's hard because I burn out on design work quickly. Hiring designers is a good idea though.
I love your videos and always learn new but I run a gaming channel so sometimes the tips in the videos don't feel quite as relevant because filming people is different than recording in-game footage. Some of the concepts still apply but it would be really cool to see your take on editing gameplay videos and thumbnails even if it's not something you're as experienced with. You likely know some big gaming channels that you could possibly collaborate with. Thanks for the amazing content! Big fan!
I dont actually work with gaming channels, sadly Film Booth videos are all designed for educators. Im glad you got value from them but the channel wont cover a gaming channel as it's not really my forte
That is such a crisp thumbnail. I would’ve definitely been on the fence about which one was made by Marques. Thumbnails are my weakest point and this is a reminder of how much work could go into making one. Not sure if I’m happy or sad about that but I am sure that I’m still learning and I’ve got a long way to go. Edit: oh and glad James didn’t have to get his ear pierced and lose his job
Wow, that video was a blast! Packed with awesome tips for both seasoned and new RU-vidrs especially, Hack#2 on 'Intrigue' which I think totally connects with the first one, 'Creating emotions.' because you need intrigue to develop emotions and vice versa. ((P.S: James did the thumbnails like one of his French girls 🤣))
Great video. Thank you. I started my channel in August and used Fiverr freelancers to make thumbnails and after a while I used the knowledge I built up as well as studying the designs of the freelancers' designs and started designing my own thumbnails. I'm not convinced my thumbnails create intrigue though but one thing I am very satisfied with is that it totally delivers on its promise. It means I have a pretty good retention rate because people get what they expect when they click. That's what has to be guarded against so I'm glad you touched on it. No point having a great CTR but dreadful retention.
Excellent and informative video as always! Love your channel and how you make your videos. By the way the first thing that caught my eye in your video was your posters in the background :) those are awesome!! Have a great day and looking forward to the next one :)
Ed: I was waiting for you to say "Baby Ruth". Love Marquez's eye movement and the sound effect. Epic. How'd you use the Goonies audio track? Lickd? Fantastic.
About the audio track I can see RU-vid has identified the music and showing the info the same way when videos have a copyright claim. I wouldn't be surprised if he just decided he considers the quality of the video to be more important for community building than the ad revenue he is loosing by using the track.
