Packaging: Titles, Thumbnails & Hooks
Title formula
Also called: headline formula, title template, title pattern
Every channel drifts into a handful of shapes that work on its audience, and a formula is one of those shapes written down so it can be reused. The number list, the head-to-head, the time-boxed challenge and the plain question turn up everywhere.
Use one to get into a draft. Running a single shape until your channel page reads like a template is where it goes wrong, because a pattern that predictable has stopped doing any work for you.
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