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 The beginning of a YouTube video is probably the most important part of your content. When you look at the analytics, it is clear that the beginning is where the drop off in viewership occurs; you need to pay attention to your hooks so that people stay throughout the entire video. How to keep your audience's attention: Get the hook. My advice is this here: Get your audience's attention just as you would writing a book or even making a video game. Make sure that the audience knows what the video is about from the beginning. Do not just focus on endless elaboration. Sometimes your hook can be something flashy or sometimes it can be something that provokes thinking in your audience.  What is important to grab their attention. This is even more important with YouTube Shorts. You need to deal with a generation of kids who are not as interested in long-form videos. Getting that attention early not only helps viewership but creates trust among viewers. They keep coming back again an...

 The peace between Azerbaijan and Aremnia that Trump has brought to the region is making more progress in another area: peace with the Pakistani state. Armenia has given up land and now it is getting relations with the countries that were supporting Azerbaijan. While this may be a bitter pill to swallow here, the country is going to need to move on and start building relations so that its landlocked status is not impediment to progress and sustainable growth. Armenia is going to have to show how they going to integrate with this new order that we have here. Change is tough for small countries such as Armenia, but with some effort they will be able to pursue a new future where the people will able to focus on other things. Armenia at the same time is going to have to be stand on its own, stand for its interests and promote the welfare of one of the oldest countries on Earth.

 It is important to remember on YouTube, you are making content for more than just one person here.  People seem to forget one important thing: The audience matters. You cannot just make content for yourself; you got to make content or stories for other people. This is what many creators seem to miss here. The content needs to be of great quality but also you got to not alienate your audience. Make something that inspires them but also integrates your dreams with their needs. That is the ticket to success.

Egypt, a country on the sidelines of the Gaza War, is apparently building a Gaza Security Force for Gaza after the war. This is based on the idea that Hamas will disarm and give control to its rivals, Fatah which is led by the elderly yet still capable Mahmood Abbas. This idea is quite strange to me. Hamas has tons of street credibility with the youth in the Arab world because of their ability to resist the Israeli attacks on Gaza. The initial attacks on Israel by Hamas were brutal and vicious, setting off a cycle of violence that continues. Regardless of whether Hamas is not in the Gaza strip, the organization has a reputation and that cannot be removed just because Israel says so. Had Israel been more successful in its operation in the beginning of the war, maybe this reputation would not have been as potent as it is now.  Egypt will not able to get this security force into Gaza. Israel just attacked Syria even though Al-Sharaa is supposedly on the side of the West (Which really ...

  On YouTube, there are many ways to get attention to your videos. However, I think one of the mos t important ways is to optimize your video titles. Introduction to Making your Videos have relevance in a local area. This post will not just be about making your video titles great but specifically how to optimize them for a local area.  How to optimize your video titles: When it comes to making videos about a local event or attraction, you need to emphasize certain parts of your title. [Local Area] + Subject can be what you use. The video title in my opinion is probably more important the thumbnail in that people see that first not the thumbnail. YouTube says that the thumbnail is more important. However, the title is very important in a synergy with the thumbnail. When your channel is young and you have few subscribers, the thumbnail is probably at its highest in importance. Video titles also need to synergy correctly with those images.  Such video thumbnails should relat...

  Trump and Putin met in Anchorage, Alaska on August 15th, to find common ground on how to end this Russo-Ukraine War which erupted in early 2022. On August 18th, he met with Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other European leaders as a way to bring the parties together to find peace in Europe. This is a war that has been going on for so long and both sides are entrenched in their own ways of thinking. There needs to be some attempt to find some common ground with these people. Europe had been inciting and inflaming the conflict for many years before the invasion began. Russia for their part has also been engaged in hybrid warfare across the globe, causing many people to question their governments and even their own narratives. The newsmongers tend to hide behind their studios without actually being on front lines and seeing what is actually happening in Ukraine and Russia. What we are getting now is some serious talks between all the power players in this conflict. There are many who wi...