Jake Thomas

@jthomas__ · joined 26 Apr 2020

Helping you write better YouTube titles using psychology | Weekly newsletter: https://t.co/jyeFG9lUmf | Favorite books for YouTubers: https://t.co/8n8mSHte9m

33 465Followers

361Following

6 302Posts total

6.6KViews on collected posts

Neueste Beiträge

Jake Thomas@jthomas__21 Sep

One thing I've recently changed my mind about: I now think it's ok for the title and thumbnail text to be the same sometimes. But the concept has to be truly great to double down on. 970 views · 11 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Jake Thomas@jthomas__6 Sep

Every week in my newsletter, I explain the psychology behind 5 viral YouTube videos. I rank them by how well they overperformed for their channel, and almost every week the best video is the simplest one. A lot of us try to overcomplicate titles, which is often a mistake. 1.4K views · 12 likes · 2 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Jake Thomas@jthomas__10 Aug

A hypothetical YouTube strategy question: If you were to start a new YouTube channel about pets, would you cover dogs AND cats, to maximize potential audience size, or dogs OR cats, to build a more focused audience? 2K views · 7 likes · 0 reposts · 6 replies Open on X →

Jake Thomas@jthomas__6 Aug

I recently gave the Creator Hooks chatbot an X account. Hide your daughters, hide your wives, my boy’s been working on his game. 2.2K views · 6 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Jake Thomas@jthomas__15 Oct 2022

I A/B tested 103 YouTube titles last month. Here’s what worked: 0 views · 2.6K likes · 274 reposts · 93 replies Open on X →

Im Vergleich zu Konten gleicher Größe

4 Beiträge aus den letzten 90 Tagen, verglichen mit der Größenklasse 10K–100K Follower. wird weit gezeigt, aber nur wenige dieser Zuschauer reagieren.

Medianaufrufe1 684dieses Konto948Median für 10K–100K

Reichweite, %5.03%dieses Konto3.71%Median für 10K–100K

Interaktion, %0.91%dieses Konto1.52%Median für 10K–100K

Kennzahl	Dieses Konto	Median für 10K–100K	Verhältnis
Medianaufrufe pro Beitrag	1 684	948	1.78×
Reichweite (Aufrufe ÷ Follower)	5.03%	3.71%	1.36×
Interaktionsrate	0.91%	1.52%	0.60×

Weitere Konten dieser Größe → Mit einem anderen Konto vergleichen → Wie diese Vergleichswerte entstehen →

Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

2.2K6 Aug

2K10 Aug

1.4K6 Sep

97021 Sep

Last 4 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.27%6 Aug

0.65%10 Aug

1.17%6 Sep

1.34%21 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.

What the audience does

Likes64.3%36 in total

Reposts3.6%2 in total

Replies17.9%10 in total

Bookmarks14.3%8 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.