Best Way to Add Custom Youtube Thumbnail to Your Videos

Creating your own videos can be a great way to attract more site visitors to your site. Certainly not only does multimedia content tend to get appreciated more by search engines,, but you can get traffic directly from your YouTube channel.
Whenever you upload a to Youtube, a thumbnail will be automatically selected for you from your video. This kind of is usually never a good image to use as keep in mind that describe what the video is all about. You can choose which thumbnail to use (a still from your video), but still that just provides you limited options. What you really want to do is add a custom thumbnail.
Hopefully you thought the green thumbnail stood out, which is excellent because that is my video!
OK, maybe a small bit biased, but hopefully you view the point. Whilst all these videos are fairly similar (all AWeber Tutorials), the viewer's eye is drawn to the thumbnail. If you can add a thumbnail that is representative of your online video, or in my circumstance simply a bold title (with branding), then you stand a good chance of being noticed.
To be able to add a custom thumbnail to your videos, you first need to jump through a few hoops for Twitter. Standard YouTube accounts/channels only have limited functionality to them, so to be able so that you can gain the ability to add thumbnails, you will need to verify your account and become a partner.

Verify Your YouTube account:

Log into YouTube (if you have multiple Twitter channels, make sure you switch to the right channel)
Found in the dropdown menu, go to 'Video Manager'
 Simply click on 'Channel Settings' (in the left sidebar)
Just click the 'Verify' button
Twitter will ask you to enter in your cellphone number so that they can send you (either by phone or TEXT text) a verification amount. Enter in that quantity and you will be verified.
You should now see in your 'Channel Settings' that you have got more route features. Yet , if like me you still see 'Custom Thumbnails - The isn't eligible at this time' you will need to become a partner.

Be a YouTube Partner:

Youtube will simply allow you to become a partner if your channel is in "Good Standing". Check your channel by going to 'Channel Settings'.

YouTube Port Good Standing up:

To become a partner, you can select the 'Monetization' feature. This will likely permit you to add ads to your videos.
May worry. If you avoid want to have ads of your videos, an individual. You are simply doing this to turn into a YouTube spouse.
Once you have done that, you should notice that the 'Custom Thumbnails' feature is available.

Adding Your Custom Youtube Thumbnail:

Given that we have enabled the feature, we can get started to incorporate our thumbnails.
Go to 'Video Manager'
Click 'Edit' on the video that you want
Click on 'Customised thumbnail... ' and upload your image
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YouTube-Uploaded-Thumbnail
Your video thumbnail image needs to be as large as possible, as it will also provide as the termes conseillés image in the inserted player (when you add your video in a post, the thumbnail will be shown).
Your custom YouTube thumbnail should:
Include an answer of 1280x720 (with at least width of 640 pixels).
Be submitted as a. JPG,. GIF,. BMP, or. PNG.
Stay under the 2MB limit.
Try to have 18: 9 aspect ratio, as it's the most commonly used in YouTube videos.
Quick Tip: If your video is for your website/business, try to include your branding (logo, colors, etc. ) in the thumbnail itself. That way, not only does it look more professional, but if other folks were to introduce it on the site your branding will be clear to see (whether they watch the video or not).
That's it! Anyone can design your own custom thumbnails for your videos.
Have you added custom thumbnail to your Youtube videos yet? Did you even know you could do this? Please let us know in the comment section below!

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