MAX is 40% off for the weeks you publish a lot

6,000 AI credits and up to 11 hours of clipping a month, and the discount holds for six months.  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ 

6,000 AI credits and up to 11 hours of clipping a month, and the discount holds for six months.

SEPTEMBER SPECIAL

Back To School, Back To Creating MAX runs on 6,000 AI credits a month and up to 11 hours of clipping, built for the weeks where you publish a lot. Get 40% off MAX Billed monthly, cancel anytime. September resets every schedule, and this year there is a bigger reason to keep the upload calendar, because from February 1, 2027 YouTube doubles the watch hours it takes to join the Partner Program. This week's newsletter showed the thumbnail styles that are working right now. MAX runs that title and thumbnail pass on every upload you make, with the AI Coach conversations to work out what to make next.

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Thumbnail styles worth trying on your next upload

9 styles from 30 channels, and how to test yours before you publish. Plus: week one of the new view counts.  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ 

9 styles from 30 channels, and how to test yours before you publish. Plus: week one of the new view counts.

NEWSLETTER · #65

THE THUMBNAIL META IS CHANGING The Thumbnails Dominating YouTube Right Now Rob went through thirty channels and pulled out the nine thumbnail styles that are working right now. Some are brand new, some have been around for years, and he explains why people click on each one. He starts with what is changing in the thumbnail meta, then goes through the styles one at a time with the channels using them. At 5:29 he also shows how to test a thumbnail properly before you publish. THE NINE STYLES, BY CHAPTER 0:45 In-Head Metaphor 3:13 Every X Explained 6:26 Blueprints 7:48 Sketch Portraits 9:12 Split Screen 10:22 Unusual Angles 12:11 Three-Head Grid 13:51 Masks Off 16:40 FOMO See All Nine Thumbnail Styles

BACK FOR SEPTEMBER 40% Off MAX For 6 Months Mulai, the styles above are easier to keep up when every upload gets the same attention. MAX gives you 6,000 AI credits a month, so you can run the keyword, title and thumbnail tools on every video you make. The September rate holds for all six months. Claim 40% Off MAX RUNNING ON VIDIQ Futcrunch 22.9M subscribers The Diary of a CEO 19.3M subscribers Art for Kids Hub 10.5M subscribers aCookieGod 8.1M subscribers 40% off monthly MAX plans for your first 6 months; billed monthly, cancel anytime. Not applicable to PayPal payments; coaching is excluded.

VIDIQ CREATOR POLL What Is Holding Your Channel Back Right Now?   Finding time to film and edit🕒   Finding ideas worth making💡   Getting views on uploads📈   Turning views into money💵 Mulai, more than 8,000 creators have already voted. Pick your wall and see what everyone else said.

More From This Week The First Week Of The New View Counts One week into YouTube's new view counting, the early numbers are bigger than expected. Rob goes through what moved, what stayed put, and how wild some of the jumps are. Watch the first-week numbers → YouTube Is Becoming A Different Platform 36 minutes on what is changing underneath this month's headlines, and what a working creator should do about it. Hear the full conversation → The New Rules Of YouTube Monetization Rob answers the 12 questions creators keep asking about the February 2027 thresholds, including grandfathering and whether hours and Shorts views combine. He also covers the Race to 4K, vidIQ's countdown to the current bar. Get the 12 answers →

In Case You Missed It Last Thursday's hero Your View Count Changed. Your Channel Did Not. If your numbers jumped last week, this is why. YouTube now counts a view the moment a video starts playing, so your old numbers and your new numbers are no longer counting the same thing. Catch Up On The Counting Change

VIDIQ EXCLUSIVE CREATOR INSIGHT 43% Shorts only 32% both formats 25% long-form only 2 in 5 active channels now upload only Shorts. Across 7,869,176 channels past 1,000 subscribers that uploaded in the last 30 days, 43% published Shorts and nothing else. Shorts watch time does not count toward the Partner Program's 4,000 watch hours (8,000 from February 2027), so those hours have to come from long-form. vidIQ data, September 2026.

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That's the week. See you soon, Rob from vidIQ

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