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    <title>50 Dollar Thumbs — The Packaging Memo</title>
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    <description>Notes on video packaging, brand systems, creative review and business content operations.</description>
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      <title>The brief is a business tool, not a design form</title>
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      <description>A useful thumbnail brief connects the video to a commercial objective, an audience and one clear visual promise.</description>
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      <title>Campaign consistency without template fatigue</title>
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      <description>Consistency is a recognisable system of decisions. It does not require every video to look like the same thumbnail.</description>
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      <title>The thumbnail and the title should share the work</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>Use the title for context and the image for the moment, evidence or tension that makes the context worth exploring.</description>
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      <title>What a business team should review before publishing</title>
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