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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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I will design attractive eye catchy youtube thumbnail
Do you know?
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.
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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 🇧🇷💛
#Richarlyson#Cellbit#Quackity#QSMP#QSMP Brazil#Subtitles#Translated#Massive shoutout to Bell once again for the translation help thank you king#I'm so bad at remembering dates but I dropped everything to work on this#and then promptly got delayed by like 2 hours but it's whatever#Anyways. Shoutout to Richarlyson and Bobby for making me sob harder than almost any other character ever#I actually took time off of work because of how badly that final day with Richas fricked me up#lol#<– I say with a hollow laugh and thousand yard stare#Mourned a lot of things that day but we mourn because of love#And I do love this little rascal with all my heart and soul#Feliz aniversário Richarlyson#I hope Richas' admin is doing well#Felps#Pactw#Pac#Mariana#ElMariana#Slimecicle#Roier#Very funny that Cellbit; the ex-con and murderer; got his ass kicked by a baby with a knife on day 1 pftt#I love that screenshot it looks like a video thumbnail#Someday I'll use RA's YouTube#April 30 2023#Edited
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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.
#dpxdc#dp x dc#danny fenton is not the ghost king#dp x dc crossover#dpxdc crossover#dpdc#danyal al ghul#its kinda hard to get my thoughts in order bc i am ✨unmedicated✨ rn BUT#this is the gist of it#i could wax poetic about how much sam and tucker adore danny as their friend but alas. the wax is not waxing. it is stuck to the paper#and i am chipping it off with my nail and its getting stuck under it.#ocarina batman has been in my head since friday someone come sedate me. him and pit fighter batman too. who is ALSO a piss poor teenage#bruce wayne who instead of a vigilante and villains is a PIT FIGHTER. he fights blindfolded thats why he's called the bat#ocarina batman's Look is if you combined punk + assassins creed aesthetic together and then gave it an ocarina#the ocarina is because i thought it'd be cool if its how he and robin communicated across long distances bc they didnt have comms#because they are ✨poor✨ and live in a one room apartment in crime alley.#and also the mental image of him sitting on. rooftop ledge in the rain playing 'song of storms' from LoZ was too fantastic to ignore#like bro imagine hearing that as a criminal. you're off doing shady shit with your gang and in the distance you hear the faint and#haunting melody of an ocarina. two of them in a call and response duet. and its getting closer. and you cannot find where#siren type shit fr fr#look he has the assassins creed hood and a long ass coat that has spikes on the end that when flared out looks like the silhouette of a bat#on fucking GOD i am this 👌 close to finding an artist doing commissions to make this for me. i am frothing at the mouth#he is 17-19 years old with his little brother-son Robin. Logically Robin is Dick but in my heart of hearts the first Robin is Jason#and he has perfected the art of getting his older brother to play songs on the pan flute for him. long pitchy whine on his own ocarina#the familiar childlike 'pleeeaaaaaaase?' and he knows he's won when there is a 10s silence on the other end before his brother plays#a lullaby.#look up 'sailor moon - pan flute (relaxing) on youtube' and when there's the thumbnail of two green skinned aliens with long blue and pink#hair. click on it. THAT is the song Bruce plays.#hhhhhhhhhhh frothing at the mouth over this au sooo fucking badly
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FUCK OFF THIS LOOKS SO COOL
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#wonder how many unhinged star wars refs there’ll be#im praying for an emperor palpeen cameo#or darth oliver makes a return?????#side note why is aj one with the sky#why is sam looking so majestic#why is tom so good at thumbnails#why is luke . such a cool guy idfk i dont want him to feel left out in these tags#shoot from the hip#sfthposting#Youtube
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for the final chapter.
#durarara#shizuo heiwajima#izaya orihara#shizaya#a cheap imitation#i made a thing#chapter 50#finally putting this here#it's been pretty much done for sooooo long but i've been fussing over minor things the entire time#tried uploading the video directly as a post so it's cleaner embedded into the post but uh#the upload never finishes uploading#so i'll just leave it as this for now with the nice little thumbnail too#sorry if no one cares anymore......#i've done a lot to spruce it up since the version i posted to twt#but i'm too embarrassed to talk about it anymore because it's been#over a year#but i was so deep in the sauce with this project that i could probably still talk a lot about it if someone asked#i might make another post about it on here that isn't just a yt link#i'll see how i feel about it#it's too much.....#i'm literally still working on side things related to this#this project will never let me go#Youtube
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Made a video for the Artimator SMP You should go watch it :]
#I might make a proper thumbnail at some point#but I think doing this is funny#I post these videos for funzies I really don't care how they preform so#shrug#artimator smp#Youtube
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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!
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#Music#Video#Funny#Electric Callboy#German stuff#I love how Nico and Kevin from Castrop-Rauxel make the best music#It's so aggressively German lmao#I feel like non Germans don't get or appreciate the döpp döpp döpp#And it's so funny that I saw the cartoon cowboy thumbnail and thought ''damn bosshoss would be funny''#And then it was them#Youtube
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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.
#like i dont wanna get into all the art represnts here and how meaningfull it must be to the artist#but imagine you make an incredible work of art that represented either the worst or one of the worst things to ever happen to you#and it ended up all over fucking youtube video thumbnails#just leaves an incredibly bad taste in my mouth
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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.
#vocaloid#vocaloid cover#DEX vocaloid#breaking benjamin#I really hope this band//its members haven't done anything bad that I am unaware of ajndfjnsdfjnfjnf#I think I searched it up when I first started the midi but that was a while ago#since this was a procrastination project for another procrastination project (shoujorei and samsa)#I will not bow#I'm gonna make a better thumbnail if I figure out how#Fun fact! Fukase is doing the majority of the heavy lifting on the scream parts because Dex's growl was a bit too weak :')#even after that it still needed heavy amounts of editing in bandlab -- had to use audio settings meant for guitars iweiififbshbsfdhn#Youtube
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explodes (in a place i cannot leave, boiling hot, questioning how to get a specific job im looking for)
#trypo.txt#trypo-p#seriously though im considering making art for thumbnails or just general youtube videos n stuff#it would be so cool... i love making art...#if anyone knows how to get into this with good pay for the work it is. please let me know.
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if dmmd was exactly the same but with crazy lesbian women instead you would not hear the end of it from me
#most everything i learn about dmmd makes me think oh cool :)#like what this guys dog turns into a hot guy and sexes him up while eating him to death in the matrix?#sure alright urobochi loves this kind of edgy boundary pushing stuff. cool#surprised he didn't go harder considering how crazy saya no uta was lol#but if you pitched me that exact same premise but with crazy lesbians instead it would flip whatever freakazoid trigger in my head and#id become like insufferable about it#off topic but i saw a youtube thumbnail once that described citrus as 'a yuri with toxic bl tropes' and i was like#okay i guess this is what gets me to read citrus#but when i clicked on the video. well a the guy was lowkey annoying and misogynistic lol but b HE IMMEDIATELY REFUTES THAT CLAIM!!!#'some people think that but i think differently.... stay tuned to hear my thoughts on that ;)' Absolutely Not#my posts
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goes to edit my website. instantly realizes that im having cramps and it's affecting the part of my brain where words happen. awesome
#psii.txt#dont visit the wide knowledge of the late madness amv page rn#I fucked up the code and it download to your computer#have to put the on youtube but can't until get thumbnail (suggested options all had gore) and cant figure out how do that until brain normal#my brain or period or whichever SO mean to me /complaining /exaggeration#its not really painful that much it just makes my brain go explodey and forget how to talk and struggle with thinking#waiting for advil to kick in. insert gif of old person or smth
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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.
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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
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