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Your Monthly Dose of Good News | September

What to study

Expectation Violation

  • You usually hear about deserts spreading.
  • Here a sea of dunes sits beside rows of planted trees, and It's Actually Working answers the doubt you'd have about tree-planting schemes.
  • Where is this, and how did they do it?
How the packaging works
Title

'Your Monthly Dose' makes it a habit for people worn down by bad news, and 'September' tells returning viewers this is the new one.

Thumbnail

The title names no story, so the thumbnail sells the roundup with one striking change, and red Before against green Now reads as bad to good at a glance.

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When your update is about a problem people have given up on, show the worst state beside the fixed one, labelled in red and green. Add one line that answers the doubt and keep the where and how hidden.

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The transferable lesson

Show the problem reversed, and answer the doubt in one line.

NicheNewsNature
Click driverExpectation ViolationCuriosity Gap
Visual signalBefore and AfterTransformationSplit ScreenSide-by-Side ComparisonSupporting TextPhotographyNo face

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