I think mine's probably Dodford or Dan Mace - working on the script today/tomorrow I'll post it when I'm done for the "Whole Process" series

New viewers will give you 8 seconds before they decide whether to keep watching*. That number is dropping to 5 as AI makes people more impatient. Most creators waste those seconds introducing themselves, explaining the backstory, or doing a dramatic cold open that has nothing to do with what the viewer clicked on. Here's what actually works. 1. Fulfill the promise of the click. Your thumbnail and title made a promise. The first thing out of your mouth needs to confirm you're going to deliver on it. The simplest way to do this: restate your title in your first line. Boring? Yes. Effective? Very. (bonus points if you're wearing the same thing and the setting is relatively the same as the thumbnail) 2. Spike curiosity higher than the thumbnail did. Don't pay off the curiosity yet. Raise it. Three ways to do this: - Cognitive dissonance hook: "Everyone tells you to do X. It's why Y isn't happening for you" - Question hook: "Have you ever wondered why some people succeed where others don't?" - Fact hook: "90% of viewers decide to leave in the first 8 seconds. Most creators have no idea why. (The figure is actually closer to 100% of viewers based on patterns pulled from Ed Lawrence, Mr. Beast, and Colin & Samir but you get the idea) The biggest mistake people make is continuing the intro after they've already set up what the video is about. Once you've told them what's coming, start delivering it. Don't loop back around for another 30 seconds of preamble. What does your current intro look like? Drop a link below and I'll tell you what I'd change. *I got this stat from Ed Lawrence, though some say anywhere from 5-8 seconds, like Colin and Samir, and Mr. Beast says 3

Had to pass this on, it was too good not too - the views on these are CRAZY and the format is super copyable. Let me know if you need tips or suggestion on how to incorporate this into your niche - Started roughly 7 months ago, sitting at 65k subs

Do you guys have A/B testing for thumbnails and titles? I was publishing a video today, and I thought I'd ask because I don't know if it's just because some of my channels have a higher volume

9k subscribers 100k+ views Steal this formula. 100 day videos almost always do well. Below are some tips to the execution if you don't know how. Step 1: You need 100 days. For gamers this will be easier as 100 days will not equate to real life time probably. If it is real time though, it's insanely clickable because you save the viewer the pain of having to go through the 100 days themselves. Similarly you could do 100 hours, but I've seen that less Step 2: Dramatic change. On the left side of the thumbnail you put day 1, hour 1 etc on the right side you put the change. Maybe this is from a sapling to a full tree. The results can be dramatized a bit. Step 3: Cash in on views. It doesn't necessarily matter what you did in the 100 days so long as you go through some type of change. It's best if you do a bit of a story arc throughout the video, but I've seen videos without a clear one that still do well. Let me know if you have questions