@TerryPG me encantó la respuesta en castellano 
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Great tips as always @abermans I used your similar approach to many of the videos I took.
BTW video views are going crazy.
Good to see you posting again.
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@TerryPG see what you think about this one. This is my #2 photo which I think will take over as my star photo this year at some point. It has 993k views.
This is a 200 degree quad shop name storefront! 
. Not often that the shop curves around you!
I think we analyse certain things and can often justify a featured image and I’m ticking a lot of boxes with this one, symmetry, rule of thirds, shop name, details inside and outside, straight… I’ll let you know when it it replaced by a blurry shot of the floor 
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@anon24291235 great photo indeed and with Primark being a shopping #1 destination in any UK town, no wonder it is clocking high views.
Like any popular location, it is hard to keep a featured photo (and sometimes even great photos are replaced at the algorithm refresh whim), but this one does tick many boxes.
One question I always ask myself when trying to take such photo, is would it be better with shoppers coming in or out or try and wait for the perfect moment that no shopper is insight (may take a few good moments of wait in Primark).
My instinct says that actual shopper’s in frame is better, but usually going into the shop or passing by (less face exposure).
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Great Photo @anon24291235 I think the biggest checkmark here is that there is 4 POI
names clearly shown.
Is this POI in a large city? I have had some great success posting a few contributions especially videos in the city of Toronto.
@abermans you mentioned this
In my area I have seen an algorithm refresh to what looks like to me as original or very early photos dating back as far back as 2011 . This does not help the POI as many storefront or facades have changed over the years.
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@abermans I only have a handful of long term featured images so I’m quite pleased with this one sticking around. I think this would get a few thousand a day if i recall, does that sound feasible or am I remembering badly? Now it’s about 10K a month on the new count. Wish I’d got into the photos earlier than I did.
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@TerryPG shopping centre in a big city. Yeah I love the 4 huge well lit signs, well it’s the same for everyone, so then I have to try and figure out what it is about this image than the dozens of others, haha always end up with the same discussions right 
Wonder if it’s worth noting that I’d cropped this to 2:1 ratio. I’ve had some success with that, but you know, who knows.
Actually noticed a place yesterday that had the first 2 photos that looked the same but on closer check, it was the same photo but the wider crop was #1 position.
Always wondered about the crop ratio and how the various places the images pops up i.e. app, desktop, google search etc etc and certainly there must be some key features of the image that it likes to be visible i.e. centre would always seem a good idea, but that goes against the 90 degree ones or my primark one.
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I really thought that the images would have some kind of time frame to be honest. things can change a lot, redesign, refurbish, rebranding. What bugs me is that when there is a change of address i.e a completely different building let alone a new sign or something.
Considering apparently image geo data is part of the consideration, then how on earth the old images retain their relevance on the POI, I’m just not sure. Maybe that data is only checked during upload. Think that a change in POI location should trigger a recheck.
Gone a bit off topic, apologies 
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You are too kind my friend. That makes me so happy to hear your videos are spiraling up. 
@TerryPG
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I actually had many photos that were top featured for the last 2-3 years without anything seeming to knock them of their perch. Not saying it was just quality, must have been some a-b testing by the algorithm that decided they worked well.
After the Feb 24 change of method many remained there (top featured) but their views stopped changing. Clearly they are still frequently viewd but their new view counter lags way behind the old one.
Not that it matters much - it’s all fun and stats
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