When making video thumbnails, what I always make sure I do on each video is:
- The overall thumbnail is engaging and is interesting to anyone who looks at it
- It conveys what the video is about in basically a glance, and will entice users to click on said video
- THE TEXT IS CLEARLY VISIBLE AND IN BIG BOLD TEXT. SUMMARIZING THE TITLE. Kinda like how I just caps those two sentences
- There's a background, but it makes the foreground stand out: as in having contrast with the main picture, and not being distracting, but still being there.
- Blurring the background to emphasize the foreground
This usually results in me uploading a thumbnail and then changing it a few times afterwards! Hope this helps anyone as well
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How to be successful on YouTube: Use tits as your thumbnail, no matter what the video subject is! Lol, don't do it but it works
That worked in 2006 when YouTube determined a videos success based on the amount of views, not how long people were watching the videos XD