How to Create Thumbnails for Youtube Videos

If you’ve been on the Youtube Video production team for  a while now, you probably have an idea which videos do well and which don’t.

The answer is the ones with topics in demand, follow by great thumbnail and title then content.

First impression do matter when it comes to social media marketing.

Here are some tips on how to create a thumbnail for your videos:

1. Pick a snippet from your video that has a Face on it. Avoid objects. Focus on ones with a facial expression.
2. Ones with like a point at the top. Here are some examples:

It’s quite evident here that:

1. 10 Things Introverts Need in a Relationship
2. 7 Signs You May Have High Functioning Depression
3. 10 Difficulties Old Souls Face
4. 10 Signs You’re an Old Soul

Do the best relatively to the others. And if you look at the others, you will quickly be able to determine that these ones have, like a point from the video included in the thumbnail:

1. 4. Be understanding
2. 5. Sadness
3. 4. need for space
4. 5. like your space

Respectively. Even though they are from the same animator, it might not have to do with that. The key is to keep the thumbnails relatively consistent.

Hope you get the idea!

Further note, you can also draw inspirations from the thumbnails created by our Chinese unit here:

Link: https://space.bilibili.com/203230674/#!/