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Bennett's Playtime

Bennett's Playtime

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My channel is really aimed at the under 6 crowd. I have older thumbnails with thicker colorful borders, but I started going with thinner borders on my new videos. Obviously, I would click on them :) But I'm really curious if they're eye-catching to kids. Thanks!
 
Hi! I just took a quick view on your thumbnails, obviously I am myself a beginner, but being a mom of two kids (in your target group) I think the thumbnails could be more catchy. For example, two of your thumbnails picture a boy from behind, while showing his face with emotions would be more appealing in my opinion.

Hope my feedback helps!
 
Kids Kids Fun said:
Hi! I just took a quick view on your thumbnails, obviously I am myself a beginner, but being a mom of two kids (in your target group) I think the thumbnails could be more catchy. For example, two of your thumbnails picture a boy from behind, while showing his face with emotions would be more appealing in my opinion.

Hope my feedback helps!
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Thank you. This is actually something I've been debating on. I've always heavily featured his face in my thumbnails. But I noticed that I had 4-5 videos being suggested on other videos that had over 500k view counts. Yet my suggested videos were only being clicked on 1-2 times per day. So, I'm wondering if it's because kids don't know who Bennett is yet? So, those thumbnails where it's him from behind are kind of an experiment.
 
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Hi! I just took a quick view on your thumbnails, obviously I am myself a beginner, but being a mom of two kids (in your target group) I think the thumbnails could be more catchy. For example, two of your thumbnails picture a boy from behind, while showing his face with emotions would be more appealing in my opinion.

Hope my feedback helps!
Bennett's Playtime said:
Thank you. This is actually something I've been debating on. I've always heavily featured his face in my thumbnails. But I noticed that I had 4-5 videos being suggested on other videos that had over 500k view counts. Yet my suggested videos were only being clicked on 1-2 times per day. So, I'm wondering if it's because kids don't know who Bennett is yet? So, those thumbnails where it's him from behind are a kind of an experiment.
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Interesting! I have not thought about the experiment (my channel is just a month old ). I was advised to use photoshop to make custom thumbnails, I can't say it whether it works or not yet.
Anyway, I hope it works out for you! We've subscribed to see what happens to the experiment)
 
Kids Kids Fun said:
nteresting! I have not thought about the experiment (my channel is just a month old ). I was advised to use photoshop to make custom thumbnails, I can't say it whether it works or not yet.
Anyway, I hope it works out for you! We've subscribed to see what happens to the experiment)
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Thanks! If I notice a difference I'll let you know :)
 
Bennett's Playtime said:
My channel is really aimed at the under 6 crowd. I have older thumbnails with thicker colorful borders, but I started going with thinner borders on my new videos. Obviously, I would click on them :) But I'm really curious if they're eye-catching to kids. Thanks!
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I don't yet have any children of my own but I have a lot of young nephews and nieces who love watching other kids on YouTube. I think your thumbnails look great! I would suggest maybe making the dinosaur character a little bigger as he's not very visible in the thumbnails. So you could maybe have the dinosaur 2 or 3x bigger and put the words "Bennett's Playtime" below it. Also I think the thumbnails that have Bennett's enlarged smiling face are the best (basically the last five). I think keep going with that style. And one more thing, your channel banner looks a little bit pixelated. What did you use to make it? If you have a high quality image of the dinosaur, I'd be more than happy to make the same banner for you but in higher resolution in Photoshop :)
 
ItsBeeRay said:
And one more thing, your channel banner looks a little bit pixelated. What did you use to make it? If you have a high quality image of the dinosaur, I'd be more than happy to make the same banner for you but in higher resolution in Photoshop :)
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Thanks for the offer! I know it's real pixelated. My husband drew and then photoshopped the dinosaur (he's a graphic designer). He told me, you have to upload it such and such way or it will be pixelated. I said, Whatever! I don't have time! lol. He's gonna fix it for me soon :)

ItsBeeRay said:
I would suggest maybe making the dinosaur character a little bigger as he's not very visible in the thumbnails. So you could maybe have the dinosaur 2 or 3x bigger and put the words "Bennett's Playtime" below it.
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That's a good idea. I might try that :up2:
 
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