Image 1 — Which of these thumbnails are best? And if none, what shall I do to improve them?
Image 2 — Which of these thumbnails are best? And if none, what shall I do to improve them?
Image 3 — Which of these thumbnails are best? And if none, what shall I do to improve them?

Which of these thumbnails are best? And if none, what shall I do to improve them?

Title: The Galápagos Islands: Isabela Islands Secrets

Description:
In this video, I travel from London to Ecuador before making my way from Santa Cruz to Isabela Island, exploring some of the incredible wildlife and landscapes that make the Galápagos so unique.
Over three days, I join different excursions, snorkel through volcanic lava formations, swim alongside sharks, sea turtles and sea lions, encounter marine iguanas, blue-footed boobies, lava lizards and even come across a huge manta ray resting on the seabed.
I'll also show you exactly how to travel between Santa Cruz and Isabela Island, including the ferries, water taxis, luggage process and what to expect when arriving on each island — hopefully clearing up some of the confusion before you visit yourself.
This trip was full of firsts, unexpected encounters and a lot of moments I genuinely never thought I'd experience.

u/rayrayglobal — 5 days ago

Please help decide what thumbnail to choose, or if I should make more / change the title etc.

Title: The Galápagos Islands: Isabela Islands Secrets

Title: The Galápagos Islands — a place unlike anywhere else on Earth.
In this video, I travel from London to Ecuador before making my way from Santa Cruz to Isabela Island, exploring some of the incredible wildlife and landscapes that make the Galápagos so unique.
Over three days, I join different excursions, snorkel through volcanic lava formations, swim alongside sharks, sea turtles and sea lions, encounter marine iguanas, blue-footed boobies, lava lizards and even come across a huge manta ray resting on the seabed.
I'll also show you exactly how to travel between Santa Cruz and Isabela Island, including the ferries, water taxis, luggage process and what to expect when arriving on each island — hopefully clearing up some of the confusion before you visit yourself.
This trip was full of firsts, unexpected encounters and a lot of moments I genuinely never thought I'd experience.

u/rayrayglobal — 5 days ago

Can someone from the UK 🇬🇧 help advise what I should do for my E-Visa form?

I’m just a tourist who will be there for 18 days. I don’t think any of these options apply to me.

Can someone please who speaks from experience help?

u/rayrayglobal — 8 days ago

Being at 59 subscribers this almost made me cry 😂

I sat down and look at my YT studio and saw that while laying in bed chilling.. first it made me absolutely smile so hard it hurt my face and then I immediately got my ass up and started editing 😂

u/rayrayglobal — 11 days ago

Round 2: what thumbnails do you prefer? I’ll be using 3 of these for A/B testing

Title: Searching for Jaguar in Brazils Pantanal!

Description:

I this video im in the Pantanal. Over 4 days I’ll be on the river searching for what these amazing Wetlands have to offer.
From caiman and birds, to capy baras and the king - the jaguar .
Please join me on this adventure, and see what the Pantanal has to offer!

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Hi guys, you guys have me great advice. And I realised my thumbnails were not the best of quality.

I’ve taken some time to practice, and I hope these are better?

I’ll use 3 of these for thumbnail A/B testing.

If you still think all of them need work, let me know why!

Thanks guys

( ALL MY OWN PICS USED - NOT AI)

u/rayrayglobal — 25 days ago

How do I find someone genuine to help me to travel for a week?

Hi everyone.

I am coming to madagascar soon hopefully, October.

I will be there for 2 weeks. But will go to both halves of the country with a flight in between.

So I will need a guide either side. But I’m not looking for just an average guide.

I say genuine because I mean someone who will happily have conversations and has an outgoing personality.

Thank you so much :)

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u/rayrayglobal — 29 days ago

43 days ago I posted about getting my first 100 views and how I was so happy. It’s at 1.1k now!!!

I have no one really to celebrate it with, so doing it here haha.

Very chuffed. And motivated to push more. It’s just hard to Pursue this with TikTok and Instagram too along with 9-5😭

But yeh, keep going guys!

u/rayrayglobal — 29 days ago

Please help me decide between Madagascar trip for 16 days. Or 10 days Madagascar and 6 days Botswana

The reason is because I don’t get much opportunity to travel during the year. And these are 2 countries I really want to visit. And since I’ll fly from the UK, it’s a long way. Does it make sense to split and do both in one day?

I just don’t want to damage my trip to Madagascar by doing this split

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u/rayrayglobal — 1 month ago

Is this sort of thing too graphic for YouTube? Will my video flag?(im a newbie)

I’m not sure of the dos and don’t yet.

This is a jaguar eating a dead cow, all natural in a national park. Am I allowed to use this type of video? Or is it too graphic?

u/rayrayglobal — 1 month ago

Beginner drone suggestions for simple B-roll?

Looking to step up in my content creation and purchase a drone.

This is purely for B-roll, where clips will be used no longer then a few seconds.

Literally fly up, record 360 degrees, fly down.

What’s a good suggestion? That produces good quality too?

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u/rayrayglobal — 1 month ago

I only have one video that’s done okay, shall I just stick with that style of video?

As you can see all my videos flopped lmao, nobody gaf about them.

However my Safari video was very different, it was 95% voice over style and the others were more vlog style… do I just stick with that style moving forward?

u/rayrayglobal — 2 months ago
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Can you tell from my most recent trips of Galapagos, Brazil Pantanal, Serengeti, Japan, Nepal the kind of thing I like?I can’t think of next :(

I’m sorry if this isn’t allowed, I understand if it’s deleted!

But I’m just at a loss, I only have 3 months left until I have 3 weeks off and haven’t got anywhere I can think to go… I have completed my bucket list already. If it helps for context, I’m 25. I’d like to do Patagonia but I’m too fat at the moment

Has anyone else felt like this too? They have allocated time off where they can travel, but can’t decide where!? It sucks!

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u/rayrayglobal — 2 months ago

I’ve only gained like 4 actual followers that aren’t friends. How can I gain more? I really want trial reels :(

I’m getting like 500-3k views on my reels I’ve uploaded 10 so far. Not making any progress it suck’s

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u/rayrayglobal — 2 months ago

How can I perfect the zoom in effect transitioning into my masked clip?

So when I zoom into the masked clip through the guys remote control device, I’ve done it with key frames and zooming in. But it’s like “jaggered” I don’t know the right word, but you can see it’s not a smooth zoom in, it goes left and right until it’s fully in the frame. This I think is because I was doing loads of key frames close to each other, because without so many keyframes… it would zoom into a random part of the clip, rather then focusing on the controller.

I hope that makes sense, I’m awful at explaining

But would appreciate any advice . TIA

u/rayrayglobal — 2 months ago
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I have 3 weeks off in October and have NO idea where I want to go. Please drop some recent trips (excluding EU) that you have done and why you’d reccomended!

So just to say I won’t visit again since I’ve been to..

Galapagos,Brazil,Japan,Hong Kong,Nepal Tanzania

And I’ve said no eu because I’m from the UK, and can do EU when I have limited time available. I get this much time off only 2x a year.

Will also be solo

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u/rayrayglobal — 2 months ago

This video has been by far my best, and it was a lot different to my others. Do I continue with the same style of video? (Voice over)

So all the other videos are really just raw and not much editing, and no voice over.

The one with the most views by a mile was a lot different. A jam packed few days into one video , with like a story telling type style to it.. and majority being voice over and music in the background.

So I think I’d make my next few videos the same style? Right?

u/rayrayglobal — 2 months ago

Do I have a better chance of being recognised by insta360 if I use the watermark?

Started posting content on Instagram, tagging the main page and the insta squad page, but I don’t use the watermark. This is mainly because I’m also trying to build my own brand and thing this would hurt it. But I’m wondering if there’s even any point trying to get recognised if I don’t use it.

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u/rayrayglobal — 2 months ago