Long form YouTube videos have 3 elements that convince the viewer to click. Idea, Title & Thumbnail. Getting all 3 right can be the difference between wasting your time, and pumping out viral hits. IDEA: Whether you're a niche or broad creator, the best ideas provide a lot of value to the audience you serve. This is the most important part, a good title and thumbnail paired with a bad idea will still perform poorly. THUMBNAIL: This is usually the first thing your viewer sees when looking at the home page. Your thumbnail's goal is to grab attention and build curiosity so that the viewer stops to take a longer look at your video. TITLE: Viewers usually see this last, so use it to provide more context, or spark more curiosity from the thumbnail. Every YouTuber I've worked with over 1 Million Subscribers do this process before they ever record the video. It's that important. If people don't click on your video, they'll never get to watch it.

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Guys. What should I do if my retention graph looks like this? I want to improve the retention on my videos

hello everyone would really appreciate some advice on this video I made, please be brutally honest and if you think something looks weird or you think it could be better SAY IT, thank you on beforehand https://youtu.be/iUTB1ZkIrC4?si=_h-nI9e8dOpgQtq1

These two videos are about the exact same car. But one has nearly double the views in half the time. Why? YouTube is a game of packaging. The top video used psychology to get more people to click. Here's how: 1. Contrast Look at the color choices between each thumbnail. The top one has a clear separation between the background and subject. That makes it more clear compared to the bottom one. 2. Composition In the top thumbnail, the creator is kneeled beside the car to emphasize it's size, making it more visually interesting. The bottom one has the creator partially hidden by the car and doesn't achieve the same effect. 3. Clarity The title from the bottom video is long, wordy, unclear at a glance. The top video is shorter, straight to the point and easy to read quickly. Conclusion: Packaging is how you tie your idea, title and thumbnail together. Your video exists in a sea of others on the homepage and you have only seconds to make an impression and get the click. Clear = Clickable