Category: Craft
How the work actually gets made: hooks, captions, video, design, voice.
This is the section about making the thing, written by people who make them. Openings that hold attention. Video that survives its first three seconds. Design that does not look amateur when you are not a designer. A voice guide someone else can actually write from. Where a technique is claimed to work, it gets tested, and the before and after is shown on the page.
Specifications live elsewhere. You will not find character limits, image dimensions or best times to post here, and no generic content ideas. You will find a real process, timed and documented, with the parts that went wrong left in.
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The first second of 42 brand Shorts
The three best and three worst Shorts from seven brand channels, watched frame by frame. Sixteen of the…
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Two things everyone believes about posts, measured on 45,000 of them
Images beat links, and shorter is better. Both tested inside single accounts across 45,026 posts: the median account…
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Alt text is not a spectrum, it is a switch: 4,422 image posts measured
Every post from 60 public brand and publisher accounts over 90 days, read from the public API: 4,422…
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What ten published brand voice guides actually agree on
Ten real, named voice and style guides, from Mailchimp to the BBC, read in full: what they agree…