David Pakman

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770 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 23 Jul

David Pakman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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This is Gavin Newsom · And, This Is How Social Media Will Decide the Next Election With David Pakman · 23 Jul 2026 podcast

Maybe on some level.

But then I've built no capital that I can then spend

on important ideas that I want to put in front of my audience, if that makes sense.

So I think it's a negotiation every creator has.

And I talk in the book about some who go too far and they've got titles like Trump taken out on a stretcher.

And then you watch the video and it's like Trump was not taken out on a stretcher.

That's very far beyond the pale.

But editorializing about what I see as Caroline Lovett's failings as a press secretary and making that as engaging as possible, I think that you have to play that game.

And again, in the audio podcast, there's none of that stuff.

It's 70 minutes of me talking.

There's none of this editorialized titles or anything because you don't need it.

Yeah, it's intuitively the specifics change over time.

But what we figured out intuitively and most of these algorithms are black boxes, so you never get hard data about it.

Intuitively, more sort of saturated colors and bright colors, colors about alarm and attention do better than muted colors.

It's such a funny thing because of Donald Trump's

Yeah, the orange you write about naturally lends itself to YouTube thumbnails that do well.

I mean, it's a it's a crazy thing.

There are creators who will dial up the saturation on Trump's orange.

I don't do that.

It's an interesting technique, though, because it just naturally lends itself to attracting the eye.

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