#how to make youtube thumbnails

[the-design-desk]

How to Design YouTube Thumbnails That Get Millions of Clicks

Creating a YouTube thumbnail that stands out is crucial for attracting viewers and increasing your video’s click-through rate (CTR). A well-designed thumbnail can be the difference between a video that gets millions of clicks and one that gets overlooked.

Here’s a comprehensive guide on how to design YouTube thumbnails that get millions of clicks.

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1. Use the Correct Thumbnail Dimensions

The first step in creating an effective YouTube thumbnail is to use the correct dimensions. YouTube recommends a resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels with a minimum width of 640 pixels. The ideal aspect ratio is 16:9, which is commonly used across the platform. Ensuring your thumbnail meets these specifications will help maintain its quality across different devices and screen sizes.

2. Choose a Compelling Background Image

Your thumbnail’s background image should be eye-catching and relevant to your video content. High-quality images that are clear and vibrant tend to attract more attention. Avoid using stock images; instead, use a still from your video or a custom image that represents the content accurately. This helps in setting the right expectations for viewers.

3. Add Text to Your Thumbnail

Incorporating text into your thumbnail can provide additional context and make it more engaging. Use short, impactful phrases that highlight the main theme of your video. Ensure the text is large enough to be readable on smaller screens and contrasts well with the background. Avoid overcrowding the thumbnail with too much text; keep it concise and to the point.

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4. Use Close-Up Images

Close-up images, especially of faces, can significantly increase the effectiveness of your thumbnail. Faces with expressive emotions can create a connection with potential viewers, making them more likely to click on your video. This is particularly important for mobile users, where thumbnails appear smaller.

5. Maintain Brand Consistency

Consistency in your thumbnails helps in building a recognizable brand. Use the same color palette, fonts, and style across all your thumbnails. This not only makes your videos easily identifiable but also enhances your channel’s overall aesthetic. Including your logo in a consistent spot, such as the corner of the thumbnail, can also help in brand recognition.

6. Avoid Clickbait

While it might be tempting to use clickbait to attract viewers, it’s important to ensure that your thumbnail accurately represents your video content. Misleading thumbnails can lead to a high bounce rate, damaging your channel’s reputation and reducing viewer trust. Instead, use intriguing yet honest visuals and text that give a true insight into what the video is about.

7. Test Different Designs

Experimenting with different thumbnail designs can help you understand what resonates best with your audience. Create multiple versions of a thumbnail and monitor their performance. YouTube allows you to change your thumbnail even after the video is published, so don’t hesitate to update it if you find a design that performs better.

8. Use High-Contrast Colors

High-contrast colors can make your thumbnail stand out against YouTube’s predominantly white and red interface. Colors like orange, green, yellow, and blue are excellent choices. Ensure that the text color contrasts well with the background to make it easily readable.

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[designassociates338]

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Thumbnail is the most important part of your video. The all first impression coming from your thumbnail. Perfect thumbnail will gain you more views and subscribers for sure.

[royalarchivist]

Cellbit: There's Eggs! THERE'S A BRAZILIAN EGG!

Quackity: Do you guys have a name for it? Do you guys have a name for it?

Cellbit: [After asking Chat for name ideas] Richarlyson! Richarlyson, please!

[Less than 5 minutes later]

Cellbit: Richarlyson tried to kill me! 😨

Quackity: Why is your Egg so violent?!

2 years ago today, the Brazilians joined QSMP, and on that same day, we were introduced to our favorite charming little rascal: Richarlyson! Feliz aniversário Richarlyson 🇧🇷💛

[starry-bi-sky]

i have been unmedicated for the entirety of spring break and thus have had little interest in writing this down, but i have been thinking about this for the entire week (as well as a dpdc clone danny au that resulted in it becoming its entirely separate batman au that includes a teenage vigilante bruce wayne, an ocarina, and me entirely incapable of making a batman au without making bruce dirt poor but we're not talking about that) and so i've finally went 'fuck it' and forcibly grabbed my laptop. I will get this done in one sitting even if it kills me.

BUT. This is about neither clone^2 danny nor about who i am calling Ocarina Batman. This is about my Danyal Al Ghul Au and more SPECIFICALLY it's me thinking about his relationship with Sam and Tucker specifically.

Tucker and Sam? Adore this asshole (affectionate) with every fiber of their being. And it is very much a reciprocated feeling, but Danny's thoughts will not be delved into much other than he would kill for them.

Tucker? The only person currently capable of getting a deep, loud, belly laugh out of Danny. Sam can get him to smile and to laugh, but it's the kind that's a chuckle-under-the-breath. The quiet, looks-down-while-huffing laughter. Snorts once with laughter and then grins stupidly.

But Tucker? Tucker can crack a slew of stupid jokes and Danny will be incapacitated for the next five minutes because he's laughing so hard that he can't breath. He lands one well-timed pun or quip and Danny will be close to tears. His laughter is their favorite sound in the whole world.

Sam is lowkey jealous of this ability, and she's gotten a belly laugh out of Danny a few times. But alas, it is Tucker who wields this power and has gotten it the most times out of the two of them.

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They're also both physically affectionate with Danny as much as possible. It started roughly around when they were 12-ish, a year since they befriended Danny, and they noticed that he sought after touch but never seemed to initiate (and was in some ways repulsed by it). They started slowly being more touchy with him. Hooking a finger around his to lead him somewhere, tapping his wrist, looping arms. Little touches, grabs, etc, to get him used to it, and once he started doing it back they started increasing it.

It's gotten to a point where he will now just. Lay on them. Like a lizard sunbathing on a rock. Leaning on their backs when they're sitting in class before the bell rings, his chin on their heads. He'll talk about anything with his arms looped around their shoulders.

If they're sitting on a couch at either of their houses, he'll lay his legs on theirs. Him and Tucker will press their feet against the other's and try and push against them (newsflash: Danny always wins, Tucker claims its the ghost strength but Danny's been winning since before his accident)

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Naturally, both Sam and Tucker know where Danny keeps his weapons on his person, and are allowed to grab them off of him if they need it. His only requirement is that they don't lose his weapons if they take it and forget to return it immediately.

They both understand how big of a thing this is from Danny, and so they do their best to treat his weapons with a lot of respect and care because they know its his way of saying he trusts them.

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Sam and Tucker are so fond of Danny it's insane. Like fr. That's their goddamn best friend, and they are so protective of him. Emotionally, physically, you name it. They will tear the head off a grown man if they need to, Danny's had scars since he arrived in Amity Park and Sam and Tucker both are going to find the person who put them there and make them pay for it.

One time, Tucker overheard a bunch of upperclass girls speaking nastily about Danny and about the rumors surrounding him, calling him names like 'freak', 'monster', etc. Danny was with him and heard it, and seemingly appeared unbothered by it, even telling Tucker that he was used to such rumors.

Tucker was so furious that hacked into the school system later that night and tanked those girls grades. They were kicked out of their clubs and had to go to mandatory tutoring for the rest of the year. He made sure to leave some way of letting them know it was him who did it.

And Sam doesn't like using her money for things, doesn't like abusing that wealth. So instead, whenever her parents talk bad about Danny, she causes a media incident that has her parents scrambling to deal with. She does something wild, outrageous by her parents' standards.

She heard some boys on the basketball team making fun of Danny once, similar to those girls had. She kicks up a fuss about something eco-unfriendly at school and forcibly holds a protest on the same day of the big home basketball game, forcing them to cancel the event and reschedule to a visiting school.

She anonymously donates money so that there's new uniforms for the team but oops! Looks like she "forgot" to donate enough money for them to get uniforms for all the team members, and strangely enough those boys in particular didn't get them! Looks like they'll have to wait until more money gets donated for the basketball team to get their new, nice uniforms. The old ones look so ratty in comparison, right?

And since the football team gets most of the sport money, that might just take awhile. And if (and when) they kick up a fuss? oops! Off the basketball team you go, :) such unsportsman-like behavior is unfit for the team.

(The only good thing about how corrupt the school system is is that she can use it to her advantage too.)

The both of them know that Danny suspects them for the sudden misfortune falling on these people, but he doesn't call them out on it. He's kinder than he used to be, but not kind enough to vouch for people who speak badly of him. Sometimes, he might just congratulate them on not getting caught.

Because Danny is their wonderful, hurt friend with a "slightly" Blue and Orange Moral code, and enough scars that people have been calling him a criminal (and worse) since he arrived in Amity Park when he was ten. And they'll be damned if he gets hurt anymore.

[sosbanfach64]

FUCK OFF THIS LOOKS SO COOL

[loppiopio]

for the final chapter.

[thatcoyperson]

Made a video for the Artimator SMP You should go watch it :]

[adulthumanproblem]

Apparently it was some sort of meme for German bands/artists to cover Electric Callboy's Hypa Hypa in their style???

And for Nico and Kevin to join them in the videos in costume??

It's so amazing!

[captain-squid-knuckles]

I realy hate how often cursed/lost image youtube video features "I Can't Be a Bride Anymore by Yuko Tatsushim" in the thumbnail, it aint just some fun internet image or anything it's a deeply personal, incredible piece of art that deserves far more respect than it's given. Both on it's own merit and for the original artists sake.

[shadowlikesvsynth]

DEX cover + VSQX//VPR of I Will Not Bow by Breaking Benjamin

I've had the sequence file for this finished for a while now, but was struggling with some things (getting the off vocal, doing the screamo-sounding parts, doing the harms, etc) but I finally decided to make myself finish it :)!

I decided to cover this song because it kept coming on the radio when I was with my mom and seemed easy for a first English vocaloid cover.

[trypo-p]

explodes (in a place i cannot leave, boiling hot, questioning how to get a specific job im looking for)

[danceintheskies]

if dmmd was exactly the same but with crazy lesbian women instead you would not hear the end of it from me

[goldpilot22]

goes to edit my website. instantly realizes that im having cramps and it's affecting the part of my brain where words happen. awesome

[xenosagaepisodeone]

youtube recommended me an hour long video where someone rants about the decline of build a bear as a brand and I decided to watch maybe 15 minutes or so not for any insight, but instead as a form of people watching. what kind of life would an adult my age lead to feel that kind of consumer betrayal? not because build a bear is cringe but because build a bear is expensive. ridiculously expensive. the only time in my life where i walked into a build a bear and did not immediately walk out was when my old-old ex took me there for my 18th birthday and got me a twilight sparkle plush because we were looking at the cost of these custom bears and their clothes and going "holy fuck whaaaaat". a build a bear ride or die is built very different from me.

you probably deduced from the thumbnail (as well as from the nature of these consumer grievance type videos) that the thing this person has an issue with is the overall modern day "aesthetic". the store has downsized considerably in the last decade and resembles a regular toy store moreso than its older workshop-like setup. at one point she near-tearily mulls over how many malls only have a "dinky little kiosk" instead of an actual location. she hates the fluorescent lights and minimalist style shelves. she doesn't get why things that were once painted surfaces are now interactable screens. she gushes over the things she loved about the old store as if she's seeing it all for the first time in between talking extensively about her personal relationship to certain accessories and plush types. she hates that so many of the plushies are just licensed characters now. she misses the experience of being in the store as a child. she misses the bears from her childhood that she regretfully gave away. she doesn't like that these things that meant so much to her are going away and that she doesn't know how to get them back. at one point, she mentions that she tried to go back to the store a few years ago and (pausing repeatedly as if hovering above some kind of inscrutable alien truth) that buying a bear and paying $30+ for clothes "just wasn't...fun?" but immediately combats the instinct to investigate these feelings by arguing that this is the store's fault for not being fun. that build a bear is failing because it is not more accommodating to adults.

with any other youtuber who was confounded by the fact that novelty things from their childhood did not survive the forces of the market 15+ years later (and had to shuffle around its brand aesthetics to see what would maybe make investors happy while also minimizing cost) I would probably have just stopped watching at the 15 minute mark, but I found myself fascinated by this humorism powered hydraulic performance. she simmers in nostalgia happily, reliving her memories with every image of old build a bear she superimposes over the screen, before snapping into a state of sadness and confusion once the image has been taken away. it takes about 25 minutes in for her to start verbalizing her frustration towards all modern day toy aesthetics. "why did they do this? what makes them do this? why does everything look like this now? I don't understand" she's less asking a question and more unable to reconcile that a part of her life which once possessed tangibility no longer exists, and the transactional nature of her relationship with build a bear is what specifically makes her unable to make peace with this. she cannot accept that she cannot buy back this time that was lost because her time as a child in build a bear was something that she purchased in the first place. the experience is tied so much to build a bear as an enterprise and transaction that to simply separate what she liked about it and pursue something that resembles that is inconceivable, and instead that the only choice is to. retvrn to build a bear.

[windmillcode]

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[transmutationisms]

fundraising on here is genuinely making me cynical in ways that feel so fucking foul, do you know how it feels to sit here trying to come up with 'strategies' to tell a new interesting story every day to get people's attention for someone surviving a literal genocide. like genuinely i do not want to believe that most people are so thoughtless and careless that they would turn away from mohammed and his family simply because one of my posts doesn't catch their attention like a youtube thumbnail but what am i supposed to think when every 18–24 hours the campaign stagnates again because i miscalibrated and people didn't see a perfectly cute kid photo or enough coloured text. idek what to say i wish that i had a million krona and i would just fund the whole thing and not ever think about how to package a story so that a genocide can generate compelling social media posts day in and day out. it's the polar fucking opposite of how i ever want to think about this atrocity it makes me feel dirty and slimy and not even dirty enough to be reliably succeeding. i just want people to fucking care enough for them to buy a packet of biscuit rations on the black market and it's like pulling fucking teeth