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Now let's jump into the episode. If you change your title or

your thumbnail, does YouTube re-rank your video? Does posting shorts hurt my channel? If you want

subscribers, if you want views, if you want monetization, the answer to all of that really is only

make better videos. What is your advice for small YouTube

channels to grow right now? Generally speaking, what we've seen across YouTube is that people

who post both long form and short form tend to have higher engagement than people just doing one

or the other. On today's episode of the Think Media podcast, we are busting YouTube myths

with a YouTube employee Renee Richie.

Renee doesn't just work at YouTube, but he also has 328,000 subscribers on his own channel,

so it's time to lean in and learn from this YouTube expert.

Do yellow icons impact search and discovery on YouTube?

When ads become limited for some reason or any number of reasons

where you've got green on monetization feels you're like, ah, breath of fresh air. But if it turns

yellow, is the distribution of the video throttled down in that scenario. So the way that it works,

the best of my understanding is that discovery,

search and discovery is not governed by ad-friendly guidelines, yellow icons or green icons,

but it is still governed by community guidelines. And oftentimes what I think confuses people

about this is that separately ad-friendly guidelines will determine this video is not safe for ads,

and community guidelines will determine, oh, not safe for ads and community guidelines will

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