YouTube Tutorial: How to improve your Video Titles to appeal to local viewers

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On YouTube, there are many ways to get attention to your videos. However, I think one of the most important ways is to optimize your video titles.

Introduction to Making your Videos have relevance in a local area.

This post will not just be about making your video titles great but specifically how to optimize them for a local area. 

In the early days, YouTube was more about memes and pop culture, these were part of the monoculture as some people call it. Now, there are videos everywhere are about every topic. In order to truly gain an audience that will subscribe and be engaged, you have to provide some unique insight that people have not seen before. One way to do such a thing is by embracing a sense of building locally and thinking globally when making your videos.

As a result, you will be able to have audience that will be local as well passionate about your content on the site.

How to optimize your video titles:

When it comes to making videos about a local event or attraction, you need to emphasize certain parts of your title.

[Local Area] + Subject can be what you use.

The video title in my opinion is probably more important the thumbnail in that people see that first not the thumbnail.

YouTube says that the thumbnail is more important. However, the title is very important in a synergy with the thumbnail.

When your channel is young and you have few subscribers, the thumbnail is probably at its highest in importance. Video titles also need to synergy correctly with those images. 

Such video thumbnails should relate to the place you are talking about. 

As an example, you take a video of the Parthenon in Athens on the Acropolis. How do you make such a video special or interesting?

If your channel does not have the bonus of having friends who share it or you have a big reputation, you have find a way to get people to look at your video. 

Your video title should emphasize something specific about your visit to the place. There have been many videos uploaded of the Parthenon on YouTube. 

Emphasize:

What was special about your visit?

What was the time of day when went there?

Any special insights you want to give about it?

YouTube is a place that is highly saturated with videos about many topics and issues. You need to find a way to stand out among the sea of videos on the site.

Giving your video some local flair is very important towards getting your videos to have attention on YouTube. People are yearning for more personalization rather general videos. The video title and thumbnail should be able to be general enough but also talk to a more specific audience.

YouTube is past its prime: The lack of categories

It seems that YouTube is continuing to dilute what made the site great among so many users on the internet. In the early days of YouTube, categories used to mean something, now they are largely just a legacy feature which they haven’t removed for some reason. It’s probably because they are sentimental about it. This sentimentality does not seem to integrate well their incessant desire to obsess with putting ads into every part of the site.

Instead of putting ads everywhere, why don’t they try to focus on improving the categories.

However, it seems YouTube is destined to be flooded with tons of ads after spending years letting people upload for free and without fees on the site.

Why is Netflix making so many Reality TV shows?

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Netflix is the king of streaming or even content now. I have seen it grow from a big company into an even bigger company that now seems to have Hollywood as a vassal state which would have been seen unthinkable in the 2000s. Netflix was profitable in the 2000s and was causing huge amounts of chaos at Blockbuster but it was still in that niche of being a rental place, not a studio making its own stories.

Fast forward to now, Netflix would be home to Douglas Fairbanks had it been a studio in the Silent Era before the release of the Jazz Singer.

Netflix rules filmed content in a similar way to the big studios from the 1920s to the 1950s. They were incredibly powerful institutions, nations within America with their own culture and hiearchies. They brought the faces of amazing actors to the screens.

What is Netflix great goal here?

Netflix is not Hollywood, at least in the sense of how we once understood it. Netflix is a fusion of both Television and Cinema. It is the true HBO in the sense of that label the old Cable TV channel uses. The Home Box Office is what Netflix truly is now. It is more of a box office than HBO was in the early 1980s.

However, can it truly live up to such a title?

Netflix is making show after show about young people in pods who date someone on the other side of that pod without even seeing them. This is the Love is Blind series. Its based on the axiom: Love is Blind. This axiom governs the show’s production. It is an interesting premise for sure, ignoring the Bachelor or Bachelorette shows, which have tons of in-person drama between the characters. Love is Blind does not have any of that here. It is about romance behind a hidden screen.

However, they are making equivalent shows for many other nations. Even Italy is getting a show now.

Netflix has been making more reality tv shows than ever before?

Why?

The simple reason: Cost.

Netflix was making alot of content in the years before the pandemic. However, in this age?

Netflix is basically becoming basic television again.