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Here are a few tips for you and probably anyone else looking for the same:
1. Focus on a good hook in literally the first 3 seconds. This is probably the single most important factor in video performance. Put an interesting or suspenseful spin on what you're going to talk about to get people invested.
2. Make thumbnails informative and easy to read!
3. You don’t need any fancy equipment (I film with my Google Pixel 4a’s front camera) but good lighting and camera stabilization are important.
4. Use hashtags to find accounts covering similar content to yours, and observe what they're doing, make friends with them/ within their community, leave lots of comments on their posts.
5. I try to pick a short caption that either provides extra info on the video, or creates humor or even suspense.
6. After my short caption, I stuff the rest of the space with popular hashtags (usually at least >100m videos).
7. Post more; the more the better, tbh, and at least once a day to stay really algorithm-friendly. That's what I've been aiming for, since my videos take a lot of prep and I can only read so fast lol.
8 Be responsive to comments, make video replies, and always take audience feedback into account.