YouTube is now gearing up to introduce a potentially game-changing feature that could allow creators to conduct A/B tests on multiple thumbnails to identify the most effective one.
This exciting news was recently published on YouTube’s Creator Insider channel, offering light on how Test & Compare will work. Creators will receive vital insights into which thumbnails are bringing the most traffic by displaying 2-3 different thumbnails for a single video and monitoring the resulting stats.
Although the testing phase is now limited to a select set of creators, YouTube hopes to provide a beta version to thousands of lucky creators in the coming months, with wider distribution likely next year.
Both creators and consumers have expressed a mixture of excitement and curiosity over the new feature, sparking conversations on numerous social media channels, including Twitter. While some people are looking forward to these changes with excitement, others are worried about the possible negative effects and fear that they might unintentionally encourage the use of clickbait techniques.
One pertinent question raised is whether YouTube will eventually extend A/B testing to video titles. Could this increased emphasis on optimization and marketing come at the expense of allocating attention to content quality? While it’s unlikely that catastrophe is imminent, what we can certainly anticipate are some exceptionally captivating thumbnails.
Source: Androidpolice
