Making It

How We Engineered a Video to 1.7M Views in 5 Days

July 14th, 2025

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How do you engineer a YouTube video to go viral on purpose? In this episode, we break down the exact title, thumbnail, and audience psychology behind a gardening video that hit 2.4 million views in 2 weeks.You’ll learn how to turn one hit video into a repeatable series, why appealing to the “lazy audience” works across any niche, and how to reverse-engineer your channel’s top performers into a scalable growth system.

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