In this video I'm going to show you how to enable custom thumbnails in 2019 and
I'm also going to show you how you can do it on your phone watch this video all
the way to the end where I'm going to show you how to upload your first custom
thumbnail on one of your videos so that you can start getting more views on your
YouTube videos by increasing your click-through rate with some great
custom thumbnails if you're new share I'm Karl from DM with Karl and on this
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channels you're creating so let us know to enable custom thumbnails on your
channel let's jump onto YouTube and I'm gonna show you exactly how to do it now
a lot of you would have seen my older video on how to enable custom thumbnails
but now that YouTube's have upgraded the layout all the settings have moved so
I've especially created this update video for you to show you exactly where
YouTube have moved the settings to and how you can enable your custom
thumbnails so let's not waste another second and get right into it
make sure you logged into a YouTube account by checking the top right to
check that your channel icon is there once you logged in head over to your own
channel if you're going to be doing this on your phone skip forward in this video
to 5 minutes and 17 seconds and you can continue on from there and I'll show you
exactly how to do all of this on your phone for most of us we're going to be
doing this on our computer so once you're on your channel click on
customize channel once you've done this the gear icon is going to pop up and
we're going to click on the Settings gear icon
you're gonna then get a pop up where you're going to click on advanced
settings this is going to take us into the old creator studio then we want to
click on channel and status and features and next your channel name you will see
that there's other verified tick or there will be a
button to click on to verify if you are in studio beta to get to these settings
go to the bottom tab and click on creator studio you can then click skip
and then you can click on the channel tab on the left hand side it should be
near the bottom once you've clicked on the channel tab make sure that you're on
the status and features part and this is where you are going to see your verified
blue tick if your YouTube channel isn't verified yet don't worry I've created a
specific video to help you get your channel verified right now you can click
on the link Right here and follow the steps in this video
once you've verified your channel then you can come back to this video and
enable your custom thumbnails unfortunately YouTube won't let us
enable custom thumbnails without verifying our account first so make sure
you head over there verify your account and then you can come back here and
continue with this video if your accounts already verified then you
can carry on with the following steps then we can head down to the custom
thumbnails box if your custom thumbnails are enabled you will have a green line
at the bottom and you will see in a enabled here if you still need to enable
this you will have an enable button on the right hand side at the bottom of
this box similar to my neighbor button under my monetization and live streaming
click on this enable button and if you are verified then your custom thumbnails
will be enabled once we have enabled our custom thumbnails let's go and upload
our first custom thumbnail on one of our videos so in YouTube studio Beta click
on your videos and then click on the title of the video this is going to take
you through to the editing section and then you can go to your thumbnails on
the bottom right and click on the three dots and click Edit this will then allow
you to choose your thumbnail that you have on your computer or your external
hard drive and upload this as your custom thumbnail
once you've chosen your custom thumbnail click open if you want to do this in the
creator studio classic you can then hit the Creator studio classic on the
bottom left hand side and then head over to Video Manager
inside your classic creator studio under videos click on the edit button this
will then take you into the Edit module where you will see your custom
thumbnails are on the right-hand side of your video once you hover over your
custom thumbnail you can then click on change image this will be at the bottom
of the thumbnail and then choose your custom thumbnail and click open once
it's finished uploading head into the top right and click on the Save Changes
blue button if you would like to know how to enable custom thumbnails on your
phone you can continue watching now we're going to walk you through how to
enable your custom thumbnails on your phone to get started go into your
browser on your phone and go to youtube.com then I want you to head over
to the top right and click on the 3 dots a new tab is going to pop up and I want
you to click on desktop which is second from the bottom
this is going to take you away from the mobile version on your phone onto the
desktop version which is going to enable you to update your custom thumbnails
once the desktop version has loaded on your phone you can have to zoom in and
head to the top right where your channel icon is click on your channel icon and
there'll be a drop down where you can then click on the creator studio button
then I want you to zoom in again and head over to the left tab we're going to
select channel then we're going to zoom in to our channel icon where your
channel name is and you'll see I have a verified blue tick once you have this
verified then you can head down to the custom thumbnails box and click enable
you'll see my custom thumbnails are enabled if your custom thumbnails are
not enabled there will be an enable button on the
bottom right hand side very similar to the
button that is on my live streaming square click on this enable button and
this will enable custom thumbnails for your YouTube channel once you've enabled
your custom thumbnails head back to the left hand side and click on video
manager your videos will then pop up I want you to zoom in and click on edit
this is going to allow us to then edit the custom thumbnail that we have on our
video next to your video on the right hand side you will have two options to
upload a custom thumbnail on the thumbnail it'll either let you download
an image if you really have a custom thumbnail uploaded or you can click
Change image which will allow you to upload a thumbnail from a photo on your
phone select the photo on the phone that you want to upload as your custom
thumbnail once you've uploaded your custom thumbnail head to the top right
and click on the Save Changes blue button you have now updated your custom
thumbnails on YouTube on your mobile phone thanks for watching this video if
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