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The Colin and Samir Show

Do anti-thumbnails work on YouTube?

The Colin and Samir Show

Colin and Samir

Business

4.9665 Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Today on Creator Support, Colin and Samir talk about thumbnails, the writers strike, and advice for high school students. JOIN THE DISCORD: https://discord.gg/colinandsamir ASK US A QUESTION: https://bit.ly/publish-creator-support  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, what's up everyone? Welcome to this episode of Creator Support. Today, we're going to be talking about the anti-thumbnail theory.

0:06.1

Also today on the show, what's up with all these creators making so much money on Snap? Like, should you be starting a Snapchat show?

0:12.0

We also discuss the Hollywood Riders Strike, and if YouTube creators are responsible for killing unions.

0:17.7

Not fully responsible, but like partly responsible. All right, if you make it to the deep end, let us know.

0:23.8

Last week was a really big week for us.

0:26.3

I mean, Doja Cat.

0:28.2

Is that what you were talking about?

0:29.4

Yeah, I mean, so, okay, for reference, if you don't know what we're talking about,

0:33.7

Colin and I were part of Brandcast, which is YouTube's upfront. Essentially, where

0:38.2

YouTube does a big presentation in front of all the big advertisers, the 1,500 people in the Lincoln

0:44.6

Center in New York, and presents kind of what's going to happen in the next chapter. One of the

0:49.3

biggest things was the NFL, the NFL's partnership with YouTube and Sunday ticket, which is super cool. Destroying was there with the commissioner of the NFL, the NFL's partnership with YouTube and Sunday Ticket, which is super cool. DeStroying was there with the commissioner of the NFL, Roger Goodell.

0:58.7

Eric was on stage. Arach was there. Michelle Corray. Yep. Jacob Collier, who's a great musician. Beautiful voice.

1:04.5

And then Doja Cat closed the show and Colin and I introduced Doja Cat, which is really fun. And we did a big segment on, you know,

1:11.3

the future of advertising on YouTube. YouTube keeps bringing us these interesting opportunities.

1:15.1

Last year, we introduced Diddy. P. Diddy. P. Diddy. No, Diddy. Diddy. You're right.

1:19.3

P. Diddy. Yeah, you're right. We introduced. There's always a great musical guest at

1:23.1

at these YouTube events. And we've been fortunate to introduce them. But the production was just such a big scale. And it was, I mentioned this last week of just kind of the emotion of seeing our

1:32.1

face on this big poster in New York. And I think even more so this week, being on stage

1:36.9

and having like this massive production and having it say Colin and Samir and then being able to

1:42.4

speak on behalf of YouTube, it's been this really cool thing then being able to speak on behalf of YouTube,

1:47.6

it's been this really cool thing of being able to, like, shape this platform that we've dedicated so much time to in our life, you know? That's been a really cool thing. So that was

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