video-packaging

Assign each element a different job: the title carries context and search keywords while the thumbnail text carries tension such as a number or contradiction. Reject any pair where a thumbnail word already appears in the title, since that overlap wastes the scarcest space on the video surface.

Run critique mode with the existing title and thumbnail text to receive a PASS, FIX, or FAIL verdict. The critique quotes any echoed words verbatim, lists what works and what fails, and returns three fixed pairs that keep the same content and claims.

Search-intent videos are found through typed queries, so the title front-loads the exact query phrasing and the thumbnail adds a differentiator. Browse-intent videos surface in suggested feeds, so the title can spend more length on intrigue while the thumbnail carries the pattern-break.

Titles should stay at 60 characters or fewer where possible, with everything important placed before the truncation point. Thumbnail text should be one to three words; four words reads as a caption rather than a thumbnail.

No. Packaging must never outpromise the video content, and curiosity-gap titles the content cannot pay off cause churn and compliance findings on regulated brands. Title claims pass the same brand guardrails as other copy through a compliance check before publishing.