took 4 hours to make this video I thought it was my best vid title: The BEST Animated TV Shows Songs

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I am not trying to be pretentious but I really thought this video deserved more views it's the most effort I have put and I'm not really sure how I should improve for the future. I'd like any form of critique from all aspects of the video just trying to improve the quality of my vids.https://youtu.be/H5P4fKoBfBg

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Thumbnail looks nice, but it needs to open a curiosity gap

[echo crown]

im ngl I have no idea what a curiosity gap is

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Maybe something like this?

Viewer is like "oh, what is he gonna say about this song?"

Make them curious as to what the content is, in some way

[echo crown]

ah okay do you think I would lose viewers who enjoy the other two shows?

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And maybe the title could be "Ranking the Best Songs from Animated Shows"

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Everyone knows the SpongeBob song

Would you sacrifice 10% of potential viewers, to 10x the view count?

[echo crown]

tru okay I'll take the advice and what do you think a good click thru rate would be for it

right now its has a 4% click thru rate and I'm not really sure what to expect

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Depends on the genre.

And remember, what generates views is ctr and reach

So if the video gets shown to more people, but the CTR goes down, you're still improving the metrics of the video

This is a more clean example of the format I'd apply to your video

(I used it for mine, and got 10k views)

Good CTR is anywhere between 5% to 15%

Anyways, run an A-B test of the suggested thumbnail to your current one, and I think you'll see a noticeable difference

[echo crown]

Okai I'll try it out u mind if I show u before I post it?

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Of course! Just reply here!

[echo crown]

Im really bad with putting text in the title does that look good?

I also changed my original title it was originally "Which animated tv show has the BEST song" bc I thought it was to long

[echo crown]

Could I check your video out too?

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The text on the left, do the format I suggested, 2-3 words, one highlighted by a red box

It should be something that gets you to click

And it isn't necessarily directly about the video title

https://youtu.be/QwHdKt6EoYc

My video

[echo crown]

ah okay i thought u just meant text on the left

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Thumbnail text is a type of copywriting

So like, you should be super deliberate with it

So something like "The GOAT?" Or "The Best"

Hang on, gonna go look at videos in your genre one sex

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[echo crown]

ok

I'm sorry if this is bad two words for some reason my mind isnt good at thinking of what other people would like to click on yet

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Probably something like "The [Best] Song?"

With best in the red block

[echo crown]

I meant to put best in red

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Or "Is it the best?"

Ooo

Is it the best

Yes, that's it

Because you're challenging a commonly held opinion

(with the thumbnail)

And then the audience goes "if that's not the best, what is?"

Or even "still the best?"

Those are ultimately things your video answers

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okay Im nearly finished i choose "Is this the Best" for the text

[echo crown]

what do you think ab this version?

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3 lines, not 4

And make it slightly to the right, and make the font bigger

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Center best, and make a little bit more space, since the box is too close to "The"

But that is basically there

[echo crown]

okay google slides is doin me dirty rn the box is rlly hard to manipulate but I'll work on it

is there another website I should use instead?

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Gimp, it's basically free Photoshop

I'll be home in like an hour, drop in the spongebob without text, and I'll make it for you when I get home

[echo crown]

oh I do gotta go to bed so i wont see it until the morning but that would still be rlly helpfull

okay here is my final attempt on my own

[echo crown]

u think the box is still to close here?

[echo crown]

okay I experimented with diffrent font and this looks better to me

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Looks amazing!

[echo crown]

I didnt end up going to bed but I did change it a bit bc I thought the words shoulda been spaced more

and I also moved spongebob a bit to the right

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Alright, time to run it with A/B test!

Any more work is going to be too much!

[echo crown]

okay thank you I just did we'll see how it goes

if u had any advice for the way I structured the content in the video that would be helpfull too but if not that's totally fine u've been a huge help with the thumbnail

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Unfortunately I don't have the time to provide that level of guidance here, right now, but feel free to reach out to me in the future with questions!