Including Name of Series in the Title?

[Michael Masters]

In the image above, you can see how I use (small town creative) in my titles. For awhile, I was using the series name and a number, like (small town creative-001).

Then, I noticed that Ryan Higa just uses the name of the series following the title of the video....

So, I started doing it like that. I figured it was good for SEO, even though it makes my titles look really long. Is there anything else you know of that I might be missing, or am I doing it right?

What's your strategy for titles in your series?

 

[BrettTaylorYT]

On my thumbnail I put series title and number in the series and in the title I put the title of the video and in parentheses I put the series title and the episode number at the end. I also place them all in a playlist with the series title