I can't always watch Tess' videos so I am quite selective. This one I watched all the way through and I really liked her points of view, how video titles should have a strong point of view, and the thumbnail style she sees working best right now. I changed my thumbnail that I was going to upload (was still creating it) for the style she talked about so we will see how it goes 😝 and I liked her 'less is more' theory on a whole bunch of stuff. Let me know if you watch any of it and what your thoughts are.

Open AI’s Chat GPT are going to start running ads in free Chat GPT because they’re losing millions. Their business plan from a couple years ago relied on them being the dominant player with more people using their paid subscription model. They thought that they would have such a first mover advantage that they would forever be Coke and everyone else would be fighting it out to be Pepsi🤪 But Google’s Gemini and Anthropic’s Claude have now caught up and I think are even better in some ways. One of the best comments I saw on X responding to Sam Altman (CEO of OpenAI): “Anthropic: makes funny ad about ad-driven Al. Sam: writes 400-word defensive essay calling them authoritarian, deceptive, and elitist The ad hit a nerve. Wonder why.” Do you pay for ChatGPT or any other AI?

Have any of you experimented with this? I asked ChatGPT to make a Norman Rockwell image of a photo of mine. Here’s what it gave me. I’d be interested in seeing how this works for you. Have you ever done it? I look worried. Maybe I should be! 😂

Today I've committed to starting a two week trial to see how effective video clips are by releasing 1 at 11 am and one at 8 pm (9 hours between each clip). The clips I'm starting with are from videos that have higher views or considered evergreen videos. This was done by comparing lifetime and 28 day stats. My objective is to see if the clips will drive traffic to full length videos with an end screen and pinned comment (I found out that you cannot put an end screen if the clip is less than 25 secs long). The clips are more appealing to me versus a short because I get watch time from the clips, as I am not monetized. What are your observations and thoughts using clips?

Have you tried the Ask Studio? It looks pretty cool. Saw Sean Cannel talking about it. The fact it has access to not only your channel's videos but also the comments is very exciting. How? I asked it what it suggests my next video topic be about, and it based it's answer on my channel's past 90 days results. The suggestion was not surprising and I am making that video next. (Today) You can access this tool in your YouTube studio, upper right side, thru that black star. Let's see what happens 🤨 📍Update: the video posted this morning and in the first hour and a half it's ranking number two of my last 10. But I must say it is not the topic I really want to talk about which is basically Social Security. I think it was suggested because there is so much wondering, worry, interest, etc. about it.