Favorite Tools - Creator Hooks

Here are some of my favorite tools (in no particular order) that I use when coming up with video ideas and writing titles:

(Some of these links are affiliate links, which means I may get a commission if you purchase the tool.)

Title Remixer

The best way to come up with YouTube video ideas is to see what works for other channels and remix that idea for your channel.

Now you can do this automatically with the Title Remixer!

ThumbnailTest

Thumbnail Test is my current favorite software for A/B testing titles and thumbnails.

You can also use TubeBuddy for A/B testing (it’s part of their Legendary package), but I prefer ThumbnailTest because:

You can test multiple variants
You can access test data faster (at least, in my experience)

You can get ThumbnailTest here.

P.S. I did my A/B test project using ThumbnailTest.

Google Trends

I use Google trends two different ways:

To guess how popular a topic is compared to another
To see general trends

For instance, in the screenshot below, we can see that:

Golf is more popular than tennis
Golf is more popular in the summer than in the winter

(And if you’re wondering, those tennis spikes take place during the U.S. Tennis Open.)

Check out Google Trends here.

Power Thesaurus

Powerthesaurus.org is my favorite thesaurus right now.

Whenever I’m looking for a better word (or a shorter word — every character counts), I always go to powerthesaurus.org for inspiration.

Character Counter

Speaking of characters, I use Word Counter’s character counter to plug my title in to see how many characters it is. I typically try to stay below ~55 characters.

ThumbsupTV

In addition to the character counter, I also use thumbsup.tv to see how my title and thumbnail will look in the different places that YouTube will show them.

103 YouTube Title A/B Tests

Ok, this is my own product, and it’s not exactly a tool, but I use it all the time.

I recently ran 103 YouTube Title A/B tests and compiled all the results into one guide. I reference these A/B test results when I’m coming up with ideas and writing titles, and you can grab it here.