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Thread dedicated to YouTube Thumnails
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I've been seeing forever that "thumbnails like these increase view counts" but I don't understand why. For me, they have the opposite effect as a viewer.
Anybody have any thoughts or links (preferably articles or posts, not a YouTube video) to help me understand this?
My contribution to the thread: an article from 2018 about these types of thumbnails with examples
openspace.sfmoma.org
And a bonus link about "YouTube voice" from 2015 (linked in above article)
www.theatlantic.com
Anybody have any thoughts or links (preferably articles or posts, not a YouTube video) to help me understand this?
My contribution to the thread: an article from 2018 about these types of thumbnails with examples
Your Pretty Face is Going to Sell - Open Space
On YouTube, there’s a long tail of content that pretty much guarantees the inclusion of every potential human interest. There are skate videos, makeup tutorials, and backyard surgical removals of blackheads. And yet the presentation of a lot of this content — especially when it’s trying to...
openspace.sfmoma.org
And a bonus link about "YouTube voice" from 2015 (linked in above article)
Why Do So Many People on YouTube Sound the Same?
The attention-grabbing tricks of "YouTube voice"
www.theatlantic.com
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Same here, I will never click on an ugly, repulsive, trying-to-be-edgy thumbnail. Or even on one where the host makes/ photoshopped to some unnatural face. But I'm 40, so these images probably have the opposing effect on young people.
Chip Cheezum has some of the best ~classy~ thumbnails
And a couple of other recent ones I've seen that are good -
New Frame Plus
Patrick H Willems
Austin McConnell
Basically, keep it simple, use solid color choices, and make it obvious what the video is about.
Of course that probably doesn't appease the algorithm gods and I absolutely understand why people go for the ugliest designs if they work. Must kill them a little bit inside each time, though.
Also can someone please tell digital foundry to stop formatting their text at the bottom of the thumbnail it drives me bananas
And a couple of other recent ones I've seen that are good -
New Frame Plus
Patrick H Willems
Austin McConnell
Basically, keep it simple, use solid color choices, and make it obvious what the video is about.
Of course that probably doesn't appease the algorithm gods and I absolutely understand why people go for the ugliest designs if they work. Must kill them a little bit inside each time, though.
Also can someone please tell digital foundry to stop formatting their text at the bottom of the thumbnail it drives me bananas
This guy puts his face on whatever, and it's as creepy as you'd imagine.
Naaah you can tell Minimme is just being a meme
His content is good and his thumbnails aren't too bad
Adam Neely's anti-clickbait thumbnails are great.
This is brilliant!
If i was into to music I wold sub just out of respect for the unique idea of clickbait answered in the thumbnail.
OP
OP
