Off topic: The trend of A/B testing video titles is getting pretty irritating. For me, the video's title is "What Is Fallout New Vegas' Unemployment Rate?", which is in-line with Austin's other...
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The trend of A/B testing video titles is getting pretty irritating. For me, the video's title is "What Is Fallout New Vegas' Unemployment Rate?", which is in-line with Austin's other videos like this.
It makes me think that this post's title is wrong. But at the same time, I fully expect that the post's title IS the video title that the poster saw.
Same deal with A/B thumbnails. No, I didn't like the click bait YouTuber thumbnail, YouTube, you just changed it by the time I had time to watch! I wish there were more dislike buttons now so I...
Same deal with A/B thumbnails.
No, I didn't like the click bait YouTuber thumbnail, YouTube, you just changed it by the time I had time to watch! I wish there were more dislike buttons now so I could dislike things constantly changing on me.
I tried this for the first time on my latest video. I was happy with it, but it wasn't doing so great, (I think due to niche appeal and maybe being too long). I gave it two more thumbnails to try...
I tried this for the first time on my latest video.
I was happy with it, but it wasn't doing so great, (I think due to niche appeal and maybe being too long). I gave it two more thumbnails to try and got a small but noticeable bump in views. My first choice was still the most popular at 38% but there was another that was almost as successful.
I feel like if I ever got offered this feature (I'm not 100% sure of its availability tbh) the burden of even coming up with more than 1 thumbnail idea would be the nail in the coffin on even...
I feel like if I ever got offered this feature (I'm not 100% sure of its availability tbh) the burden of even coming up with more than 1 thumbnail idea would be the nail in the coffin on even using it.
More generally, this is A/B Testing. Basically, it's an experiment to find which variation of something performs the best. In this case, you can set multiple titles and YouTube will track how each...
More generally, this is A/B Testing. Basically, it's an experiment to find which variation of something performs the best. In this case, you can set multiple titles and YouTube will track how each performs in terms of clicks/views or whatever so you can eventually settle on the "best" one.
It actually bases it off watch time. So a click bait thumbnail that gets people to click the video, isn't really worth anything if they quickly move on to something else. But an option that gets...
It actually bases it off watch time.
So a click bait thumbnail that gets people to click the video, isn't really worth anything if they quickly move on to something else. But an option that gets less clicks but the people that do click stick around for, is scored higher.
Interesting. Sound like for the title A/B they're measuring something like how accurately a title advertises the content, with the assumption that someone clicked because they were interested what...
Interesting. Sound like for the title A/B they're measuring something like how accurately a title advertises the content, with the assumption that someone clicked because they were interested what the title offered and stayed because they got what they expected (or left because it wasn't).
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The trend of A/B testing video titles is getting pretty irritating. For me, the video's title is "What Is Fallout New Vegas' Unemployment Rate?", which is in-line with Austin's other videos like this.
It makes me think that this post's title is wrong. But at the same time, I fully expect that the post's title IS the video title that the poster saw.
Same deal with A/B thumbnails.
No, I didn't like the click bait YouTuber thumbnail, YouTube, you just changed it by the time I had time to watch! I wish there were more dislike buttons now so I could dislike things constantly changing on me.
I tried this for the first time on my latest video.
I was happy with it, but it wasn't doing so great, (I think due to niche appeal and maybe being too long). I gave it two more thumbnails to try and got a small but noticeable bump in views. My first choice was still the most popular at 38% but there was another that was almost as successful.
I feel like if I ever got offered this feature (I'm not 100% sure of its availability tbh) the burden of even coming up with more than 1 thumbnail idea would be the nail in the coffin on even using it.
My thumb nails have text on them, so it was pretty easy. Two pictures and two phrases made it easy to come up with ebough combinations.
I use text too, but I feel like my first idea is always a huge reach haha
Sorry, the what? Am I out of the loop on this? What is A/B video titling?
More generally, this is A/B Testing. Basically, it's an experiment to find which variation of something performs the best. In this case, you can set multiple titles and YouTube will track how each performs in terms of clicks/views or whatever so you can eventually settle on the "best" one.
It actually bases it off watch time.
So a click bait thumbnail that gets people to click the video, isn't really worth anything if they quickly move on to something else. But an option that gets less clicks but the people that do click stick around for, is scored higher.
Interesting. Sound like for the title A/B they're measuring something like how accurately a title advertises the content, with the assumption that someone clicked because they were interested what the title offered and stayed because they got what they expected (or left because it wasn't).