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All right, so we're going to talk about YouTube advice that people should avoid in 2025, and we're going to do it in like an overrated,

underrated, properly rated format. There's all kinds of different features, shorts, YouTube shopping,

long form versus short form community tabs, as well as a bunch of unhinged

topics that you're going to be throwing at me.

I'm here with Nathan and Craig, content creators at Think Media.

And we're on the Think Media podcast, so I'm excited to dive into it.

Hey, well, why don't I hit the first one here?

First one on our list is overrated, again, format here, overrated, or properly rated.

We're going to go first with a YouTube channel trailer. What are your thoughts?

I think that YouTube channel trailers are overrated, meaning sitting down to script it, film it,

upload it as if like that's going to help your channel grow.

Now, I will say, though, it is underrated to leave the unsubscribed video or the next video people see blank.

And so here's what you can do in your YouTube settings.

You can select a video for people that are not subscribed to your channel to see. And that's where you would normally put the

channel trailer. But I think you should just put a video there that's your best first impression.

And then you can select a video in that same space on your YouTube homepage that once they're

subscribed, they see, kind of like your maybe second best. And I think that people haven't thought that

through. So in my opinion, it's kind of like if eventually getting a subscriber is like getting

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