Hi Jamie, thanks for the great video/information. Regarding the psychology of titles and thumbnails for educational channels, what do you focus on the most in this aspect? Ie are you trying to illustrate a story?
@@user-ml4tj this is a great question. Could you do more on the psychology of what you do in another video please? I feel like there is so much to learn here
@@user-ml4tj I always try and focus on the question 'What does this person need to see or read to make them feel like this video can solve their problem?' If you find a compelling way to make a video's thumbnail get that audience member excited, you'll end up with many clicks.
I always draw my thumbnails but I never have 3 totally different concepts....this blew my mind but when you explained the difference of a arrow in various colours verses totally different ideas it seems obvious now. Thanks guys
Thumbnail ideas can also cross-pollinate to give you extra design concepts you’d never have thought of if you were just designing one. Glad the episode was helpful!
I come up with my best titles and thumbnail tweaks after the video has flopped. Nothing like a slap in the face from the algorithm to get your creative juices flowing. 😅 Great episode, keep it up!
Oh yeah I know the feeling 💀 Helps to show people beforehand. Also using a tool like Clickpilot to see what your packaging will actually look like on the YT homepage
When you find a video topic to make video, which you do first Title or thumbnail? Currently i done sample titles first Then i go for thumbnail concepts from competitors and adjacent niches Then i refined them into my mockups After which i try to matcg my thumbnail mockup with title to find which complements better together
That's a solid system! For me, it usually changes from video to video. We cover the topic here: ua-cam.com/video/U3lvLCp6MRM/v-deo.htmlsi=RFK9NtMxhbu59Kty&t=1864 - Gwilym
I've had this issue sometimes as it is harder to see the forest from the trees when you're closer to the subject of the video + more emotionally attached. A simple trick I've found that has helped me, even though it sounds kinda silly is to just imagine that I'm helping a client and talking out loud how the thumbnail could be better. This usually brings up some new ideas that I wouldn't have thought of.
@@JamieWhiffen I'll give it a try. I notice that when I work on a thumbnail/video then sort of park it for a while, when I re-visit it, I tend to have much better ideas. But it isn't that practical to have a 6 week lead on a video. I tried your sketching yday, it works really well! Allows me to super quickly play around with composition without a lot of effort.
Feel free to ask any questions about my thumbnail process in the comments and I'll respond to as many as I possibly can!
Hi Jamie, thanks for the great video/information. Regarding the psychology of titles and thumbnails for educational channels, what do you focus on the most in this aspect? Ie are you trying to illustrate a story?
@@user-ml4tj this is a great question. Could you do more on the psychology of what you do in another video please? I feel like there is so much to learn here
@@user-ml4tj I always try and focus on the question 'What does this person need to see or read to make them feel like this video can solve their problem?' If you find a compelling way to make a video's thumbnail get that audience member excited, you'll end up with many clicks.
I always draw my thumbnails but I never have 3 totally different concepts....this blew my mind but when you explained the difference of a arrow in various colours verses totally different ideas it seems obvious now. Thanks guys
Thumbnail ideas can also cross-pollinate to give you extra design concepts you’d never have thought of if you were just designing one. Glad the episode was helpful!
I come up with my best titles and thumbnail tweaks after the video has flopped. Nothing like a slap in the face from the algorithm to get your creative juices flowing. 😅 Great episode, keep it up!
Oh yeah I know the feeling 💀
Helps to show people beforehand. Also using a tool like Clickpilot to see what your packaging will actually look like on the YT homepage
Hahaa, I've been there before!
Great video, thanks guys
thank you for making these kind a contents, hats of to you guys, keep it up
thanks for the video 😁 helped me a lot to rethink the idea of my first video, what should the keypoints be and what i want to place in the thumbnail 👍
When you find a video topic to make video, which you do first
Title or thumbnail?
Currently i done sample titles first
Then i go for thumbnail concepts from competitors and adjacent niches
Then i refined them into my mockups
After which i try to matcg my thumbnail mockup with title to find which complements better together
That's a solid system! For me, it usually changes from video to video.
We cover the topic here: ua-cam.com/video/U3lvLCp6MRM/v-deo.htmlsi=RFK9NtMxhbu59Kty&t=1864
- Gwilym
I feel like I'm a lot better at improving other people's thumbnails than making my own
I've had this issue sometimes as it is harder to see the forest from the trees when you're closer to the subject of the video + more emotionally attached.
A simple trick I've found that has helped me, even though it sounds kinda silly is to just imagine that I'm helping a client and talking out loud how the thumbnail could be better.
This usually brings up some new ideas that I wouldn't have thought of.
@@JamieWhiffen I'll give it a try. I notice that when I work on a thumbnail/video then sort of park it for a while, when I re-visit it, I tend to have much better ideas. But it isn't that practical to have a 6 week lead on a video.
I tried your sketching yday, it works really well! Allows me to super quickly play around with composition without a lot of effort.