Carla Marshall has 10+ years of experience in video marketing, social media management, content marketing, DRM, and SEO. She was previously Editor in Chief at ReelSEO.com, and as a journalist and video marketer, she's covered news stories, creator journeys, and digital-first publishing initiatives across all the major online video platforms. She is YouTube Certified and a judge for the Shorty Awards, as well as the UK, US, Canadian, Global, and EU Search Awards.

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Thumbnail Tips will help you create images that get noticed, spark curiosity, and drive more clicks.

10 Thumbnail Tips: Why Some Thumbnails Get Clicks (and Others Don't)

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Beyond the video content itself, custom thumbnails are probably the most important YouTube tool you have in your arsenal. Take a look at our essential guide and get it right every time.

How to Make Custom Thumbnails - The Essential Guide!

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Great YouTube thumbnails need bold colors, minimal text (three words max), strong facial expressions, and consistent testing. Plan your thumbnail before filming, not after.

5 YouTube Thumbnail Tips That Drive More Clicks

There are three ways to download a YouTube thumbnail: through YouTube Studio for your own videos, with a free downloader tool for any public video, or manually using the video ID. All methods are free and take under a minute.

How to Download a YouTube Thumbnail: 3 Methods

In addition to being an avid movie and gaming enthusiast, Uttaran Samaddar is an experienced writer who has lent his creativity and unique perspective to various publications. He loves hearing and telling stories.

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Darryl covers YouTube growth and creator tools at vidIQ, helping creators understand how to grow their channels. 

When not writing, he’s tending to his farm surrounded by horses, chickens, dogs, and somehow cramming more plants into his garden than it could ever reasonably hold.

Darryl Rentz

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YouTube multilingual thumbnails let you upload a localized thumbnail for each dubbed language track, and viewers automatically see the version matching their language. Set them up in YouTube Studio under the Languages tab after adding multi-language audio.

How to Add Multilingual Thumbnails on YouTube (Localized Thumbnails Guide)

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Learn strategic approaches to combat the sameness produced by AI thumbnail generators and how to leverage these tools as a thumbnail maker without sacrificing your unique creative edge.

Are AI Thumbnail Makers Destroying YouTube?

Liron Segev, aka TheTechieGuy, is the Director of Customer Success at vidIQ, an internationally celebrated Digital YouTube Strategist working with some of the largest brands and YouTube influencers in the world. Over the past 20+ years, his work has taken him to South Africa, the UK, and the US where he frequently speaks at conferences and provides expert tech commentary for various print publications, radio, and TV while actively running his Tech YouTube Channel.

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On this episode of TubeTalk, we're all about what makes an outstanding YouTube custom thumbnail.

YouTube Custom Thumbnails