I would love your thoughts on what you'd like to see us have fun with in here, this year. With these new categories, I'm hoping it will make it easier for us to post our thing in the area that feels like the right home for it. Are any categories missing? One thing I love is Coffee Hours, but I am struggling to work out when to do them for our time zones. In some ways, I feel like making 2 per week, the same times, every week, for a month, and see how they go. I want to try lives too, where we make a time and just go live then whoever wants to join can join live and it is recorded too, I believe. Feel free to re-categorize any of your posts if you want, especially recent ones. And I am excited for @Lucy Caldicott to share with us her learnings after her massive success with her channel that is now at 5.32K subscribers and the below video she published 2 weeks ago that has 112K views so far 🩶🪙🩶 Heading for that silver play button in 2026!

I have the basic paid subscription to Vid IQ and I use it to give me basic guidance when uploading videos. To help remind me to use end cards etc. and to score my title, thumbnail and description. I was digging around in there last night and asked it for 'optimisation' help on videos on my channel and saw a lot of videos with titles that scored low (like 44/100 or 60/100). If you use Vid IQ and haven't nosied around into it much like I hadn't, it was good to float back over old videos before I had Vid IQ and swap out titles (video below is showing you how it works). I only picked titles that were true for my video and - being old videos it doesn't matter that much but while watching the new Knives Out movie it was the perfect computer job to tootle around with. Do you use either free or paid Vid IQ much and if so, what do you use it for? Signed, Major Underuser of VidIQ.