Josh Howard

Found of Six Cents Productions, a YouTube full-service agency.

I don't guarantee views on YouTube. I help give creators and businesses a better chance.

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I studied 10,000+ YouTube Community posts from channels with 200 to 17M subscribers.

What makes a post reach a bigger audience?
What’s the most engaging type of content?
Do community posts even matter?
What’s the point?

Here’s my findings:

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@weill Have 5090 and willing to contribute what it can put out.

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@weill @CreatorML_ Used a combination of different open source models to log 124 data points for thumbnails. They tend to be better at the finer details of analysis if looking at thumbnails imo.

If you decide to share some insights I'd love to see whatever you put out.

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@gregisenberg Nightly task to create a morning newsletter for me to read based on my bookmarked posts. Instructions tell it what I want and how I want it based on different variables and blah blah.

It's my manually curated newsletter now when I don't have time to read or go back in the day.

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@TheCraigHewitt Heck yeah! Glad to see things moving!

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@donnfelker Anytime you take a breath for a week or two feels like you get behind so fast 😅

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@trq212 An overall session log with routing (generic/light), a specific session log on the chat that stays updated(parent folder log w/expanded info), and this type of documentation are the ultimate combo.

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@PhilStarkovich Oh my... I got to the first 2 and I thought the meme was "dang, are those real?" like it was a good thing. I indeed did NOT make it to the 3rd! 😶
(bathroom scrolling, sorry lol)

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@Daniel_Batal 100% with you. I’m deep on the data as well, so I hear you. One of the best things in a while was the audience segment data from last summer. One of my favorite new ones to use for decision making and analysis. I feel like we could have a pretty good chat if it ever presents. 🙂

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@Daniel_Batal Yeah, so the way they’re presenting it is “monthly audience” in YouTube advanced mode. Definitely wouldn’t bank on raw views!

I’d assume this is based on unique viewers, which I think is the best single stat to use, but could see them configuring this to combat fake views.

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@kanekallaway @RobHoffman_ @markbrazil I’ve got an entire setup for podcasts that would probably interest you :)

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For anyone doing AI thumbnails, you should know a 1-shot approach is terrible. This is the way it should be done.

I think AI-heavy thumbnails are for a younger audience, so not my thing, but if you're creating using AI then perhaps you'll find some great ways to use this.

[ImPaul @impaulxyz]

Tus Posters con GPT Images 2.0 por fin son 100% editables

Con Canva puedes separar las capas y personalizar cada texto o imagen. Se acabó el conformarse con lo que te dé la IA: ahora el diseño es 100% tuyo

Te explico cómo hacerlo 👇

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@Liron_Segev 100% agree on the reverse prompt. Basically anything is possible as long as you know what you want.

For me, I think I'm more just worried about the time sink on orchestration & whether it's worth it. There are enough AI distractions and not sure if it would be time well spent😅

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@glenngabe @OfficialLoganK Same, and I'd love for them to be able to do a lot more with the Workspace automations as well. So much potential with Gemini, but all so fragmented/hidden.

Long term Gemini/Google ecosystem is going to win out, but right now it just leaves you wanting more.

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@oligilpin @LouixGilpin C2PA. Not for detection, but for verification. Could potentially help more in other scenarios(Google) to verify or speed it up, especially at your size.

YouTube has been doing some interesting things with pattern matching thumbnails, which I assume is what happened here.

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@Daniel_Batal So sick! What an absolutely incredible view.

(sorry about the lost work though😅)