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In the archive

What past issues looked like.

Issue 07 · December

Rewind is a mirror, not a montage

The full reasoning behind why Playback's year-in-review is per-channel and opt-in — and the one guardrail that keeps it honest.

Issue 06 · November

We shipped ‘plays, not views’

Why we renamed the counter, what a play actually means, and the day the number on a video went down on purpose.

Issue 05 · October

The packaging discipline

The most measurable skill in video, the metric that stops it becoming clickbait, and how Studio surfaces it.