How to Change YouTube Video Custom Thumbnail - Tutorial (No Software Needed)

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Have you wondered how to change your YouTube Video Thumbnail?

In this tutorial, I"m going to show you how simple this really is, it's not that complicated.

Steps to Change Your YouTube Video Thumbnail - Make It Custom!

Step 1: Click of the upper right-hand corner for the video manager. This will bring in the section where it has all your uploaded videos.

Step 2: Select a Video to Edit that you want to customize that thumbnail - Click that edit button and YouTube automatically selects three thumbnails that you can choose from and one of them might be great but I want you to use this step because it's going to bring more conversions. It's about more people clicking on that video and watching the video and to do that they have this custom thumbnail button that your able to upload and I'm going to show you how to maximize the clicks from there.

Step 3: File Size for that Custom Thumbnail - YouTube suggest that we use 1280 pixels by 720 pixels. And you can upload it as a JPEG, PNG, whatever and have it to be no more than 2 MB.

Step 4: Take Screen Shot of the Thumbnail - On Windows you can use the snipping tool. On a Mac hit command, shift & 4.

Step 6: Upload custom Thumbnail: We need to come back to our channel and to get back where we need to be we need to go ahead and hit edit. So let's go to the video manager again. And let's hit the edit button. And we'll now get this custom thumbnail and upload the image that we actually just did.

That's how you customize those thumbnails for the YouTube videos.


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[YakMotley]

Dude! Your videos are a life saver for new YouTubers!! Thanks man!

[CastIronCooking]

Thanks for the help, Derral! we appreciate you very much! You're a TOTALLY AWESOME, dude!

[CraigLovesCrochet]

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[WJFRadio]

This is an amazing tutorial! The first video I used this tutorial on saw a doubling of views in a week! This will be done on ALL videos! Thanks for all of the work you do!

[Vambibuda]

You are amazing! Thanks so much, I really appreciate what you do for us youtubers.

[TwesomE]

In my video manager i dont have that custom thumbnail button how can i have it apear in there?

[half-lifescientist]

there's no custom thumbnail video button on my edit system.

[cammiericey]

I tried it but when I went to the edit section in my video manager on one video but the custom thumbnail button didn't pop up. Do you know how to get it? Please reply! Thanks!!!

[CesareVesdani]

Custom thumbnails are cool. They also help personalize your videos to suit your theme.

[HistoriasRetorcidas]

Two wks ago I purchased a camara, got final cut, and starting shooting and trying to create content on youtube, I am just using this video to update thumbnails, thanks a lot for the tip.

[martinmysteryvlogs]

Derral When I go to my Video Manager and go to Edit there is not Custom Thumbnail Icon Under the pics like yours @Derral Eves

[feastsinmalta]

I don't have the 'custom thumbnail' button ...what do i do?

[lukefarmer]

what if you don't have that button?

[therealsketch]

thanx man ive been looking for a tutorial like this since when you gained another subscriber

[el_profe_tk]

been looking for a couple of days for the best way to make my own thumbnails, thanks for the easy solution!

[celinev]

whenever i go to video manager, it doesnt have that custom option. what do i do now

[seba]

i have the custom thumbnail feature and after i uploaded the thumbnail and saved but when i refreshed the page the thumbnail is not selected! help me

[ccorbin]

I dont have a customize my thumbnail option to click on..  any reason why that might be..??

[StylHarmony]

Love this tutorial ! Thank you ! With you I improve every day.

[mimismukbangz]

I have been looking for a tutorial that put step by step instructions for weeks this was the most helpful!!! Thank you much