How Brainstorming Video Ideas (Title & Thumbnails) and getting instant feedback works on ThatsABanger.com
YouTube creators can brainstorm video ideas with the help of an AI title suggestor and an AI thumbnail generator. They can also upload their own already existing thumbnail and set a title they want to test.
For the thumbnail generator, they can set an AI thumbnail caption. If it is set, the AI-generated thumbnail will contain that caption; if not, it will contain no caption.
Creators can also import their own YouTube channel using their channel ID; this will import several long-form videos at once.
After creators upload their video idea or existing videos, human users can vote in a facemesh-style 1vs1 comparison of the thumbnails and titles. By clicking on one of the videos they increase the Elo rating of the video idea. They can also award a "Thats A Banger" vote to videos that have true viral potential. This way all uploaded videos are ranked against each other.
There are videos from MrBeast, Dude Perfect, Veritasium, PBS SpaceTime, and other creators who pride themselves in having great titles and thumbnails. You, the small creator, can now compete against the big boys; while on YouTube their hundreds of millions of subscribers are a viral advantage, on ThatsABanger.com that is not the case. Small creators can create video ideas and thumbnails that voters prefer.
The Leaderboard shows the best thumbnail and title video ideas overall, the best of the best. Are you among them? You can rank the Leaderboard by banger percentage score or by Elo rating, the true evaluation of how good a video idea is.
To help you, the creator, brainstorm and evaluate your video ideas quickly, you can also get instant AI feedback as AI votes directly after the upload. The AI will compare your uploaded video idea to other uploaded video ideas, vote on them, and tell you why it preferred what it preferred and if the video would be a banger (viral hit). By default, 10 AI votes are cast on every upload, providing you instant feedback on your brainstormed video idea. Per AI vote, the cost is 1 credit.
For even more comprehensive feedback, ThatsABanger.com also offers dedicated thumbnail testing with AI analysis. You can upload up to 20 thumbnails at once and get detailed scores (0-100) and explanations from our AI expert. Each thumbnail costs just 1 credit to analyze. Want even more accurate results? Enable dual AI analysis to get opinions from both GPT-4 and Google's Gemini 2.5 Flash models - the scores are averaged for maximum reliability, though this doubles the cost to 2 credits per thumbnail. You can also run multiple final comparison rounds (1-3x) for the top-performing thumbnails to ensure consistency in the rankings.
Currently humans also get 1 credit for each vote they cast; this ensures that there are likely more human votes than AI ones. Also, human votes count with higher priority towards the Elo rating of your videos.
The great thing about ThatsABanger.com is that you can be really wild with your video ideas, while there is an AI safety filter that ensures your video ideas and thumbnails comply with YouTube's terms of service and guidelines. You don't actually need a video for the idea that you create! Ever wondered if it's worth doing the 30-day challenge you are about to start? Test it out first!
In the dashboard you can see and manage all your uploaded video ideas, see their rating and banger percentage, and sort them by those metrics. You can also request more AI votes for a specific video or for all your videos at once.
Free users can do everything that paid users can; the only downside is that they can't download their AI-created thumbnail without a watermark, and they need the credits to do that. So if you are a user enjoying the addicting process of getting your ideas out there and tested, you will likely want to subscribe to the Premium or Pro tier on the pricing page.
Brainstorm Video Ideas And Compete With The Best. Where do you stand?