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What If YouTube Had No Thumbnails?

Until December 2008, ordinary YouTube uploaders could only choose a thumbnail from frames at the 25%, 50% and 75% marks. What a thumbnail-free YouTube would look like, what album covers, podcast art and Netflix's artwork research suggest, who would win and lose, and what it means for your videos today.

9 Oct 20266 min read
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What If Explainer Videos Had Never Been Invented? How Products Were Explained Before

Before explainer videos there were pitchmen, chalk talks, 500-page catalogs, manuals and live demos like Ron Popeil's Chop-O-Matic and Brownie Wise's Tupperware parties. What video really added, what a world without it would look like for sellers, and what words and pictures still do better.

8 Oct 20267 min read
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