Thumbnails & Titles
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Four Commands to Fix a Thumbnail: Draw More, Not Different
Four short image commands, run as four passes instead of one long prompt. Size, edits, subject, then a numbered grid so you choose instead of guessing - plus where the line sits between reference and copy.
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Ninety-Nine Image Prompts You Will Not Use: The Five Slots That Actually Matter
You will use four prompts out of ninety-nine, and that is fine - the structure underneath is the transferable part. The five slots of an image prompt, rewritten for thumbnails and B-roll.
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AI Thumbnails: The Risk Is Not Detection, It Is Looking Like Everyone Else
No detector is coming for your generated thumbnail. Indifference is. What the rules actually say, and the prompt skeleton that builds a look of your own.
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Why AI Titles Sound Like AI, and the Brief That Fixes It
Unbriefed, a model returns the average title for your topic. Here is the six-line brief, the four tells to rewrite out, and where the model must not go.
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Your Thumbnail and Title Are One Unit. Most People Write the Message Twice.
The image stops the scroll, the line converts the pause. Four ways the pair fails, four divisions that work, and the read-aloud test before uploading.
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Before You Put a Number in the Title, Check What It Commits You To
A digit in the title is a production decision, not a packaging one. The three bands, why round beats clever, and the count audit to run before publishing.
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Five Shapes a YouTube Title Can Take, and Where the Keyword Goes
A formula does not help at the blank title field. Five drafting shapes that do, plus where to put the subject phrase so truncation cannot eat it.
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One Brand, Several Channels: Naming for a System You Have Not Built Yet
A name works alone. A naming convention survives a second and third channel. Here is the brand-plus-removable-tag structure, and what it genuinely does.
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The Stop-Scroll Number: How One Digit in Your Title Lifts YouTube Click Through Rate
Why a single digit stops the scroll, the three families of numbers that work in English-language titles, and where the tactic quietly backfires.
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YouTube Title Formulas: How to Layer Curiosity Over Keywords Without Losing Either
Curiosity titles win clicks, search titles win reach. Here is how to stack both layers into one line, plus the ratios and packaging rules behind it.
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