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YouTube has A/B testing features that allow videos to have multiple titles and/or thumbnails.
by peesem 6mo ago
YouTube has A/B testing features that allow videos to have multiple titles and/or thumbnails.
- m-hodges 6mo agoRight. So I thought it would be helpful to share the more-descriptive title that I got.
- Modified3019 6mo agoThis is what I use DeArrow for, crowdsourced titles and thumbnails (from the maker of SponsorBlock): https://github.com/ajayyy/DeArrow https://github.com/ajayyy/DeArrow
- dandanua 6mo agoI'm sorry, what? Can people now see different titles? Insanity, if true.
- hidroto 6mo agoIt has been that way for a while now. I see Veritasium video titles and thumbnails change quite often, it can be quite annoying as it sometimes gives the appearance of it being a whole new video. A/B testing a title feels wrong to me, its almost as bad as A/B testing a UUID. Just pick a title and stick to it unless you need to fix a factual error.
- zacmps 6mo agoTitles and thumbnails have a huge impact on video performance, and when it's your main income it seems reasonable to try to marginalise the impact.
- throwaway290 6mo agoAnd video performance = ad revenue.
- TeMPOraL 6mo agoRight, but then there's this thing called "shared reality" and once you break it, all kinds of bad consequences happen. This is even worse, as it also breaks temporal continuity for individual reality. E.g. I expect that if I saw a video titled X today, I'll be able to find it under title X tomorrow, and if I can't, it's one of the rare/marginal cases when it got banned/deleted/retitled, or I just misremembered. Titles becoming unstable in the general case is a bad situation.
- dandanua 6mo agoGaslighting is now a government policy
- UltraSane 6mo agoOh yes. Some channels cycle through many different ones as they test them. Veritasium is notorious for this.