what makes a good thumbnail on YouTube my channel's got 66 000 subscribers I've done various
courses on creating thumbnails and I'm going to tell you all the golden rules for making a good
thumbnail so if you look on the screen now you can see eight thumbnails and I can tell you that
only one of these thumbnails is outstanding another one is pretty good but there's one
outstanding thumbnail do you know why it's outstanding what are the features that make
it outstanding if you can answer this question you don't need to watch this video if you can't answer
the question and know why one of these thumbnails is so good then it's worth watching this video so
the one thumbnail here that covers the five golden rules of creating a thumbnail and I'm going to go
through those golden rules is this one here so there are five key factors and a couple
of smaller ones but five key factors that tell me this person or this channel and these people know
exactly what they're doing and I've even checked out their channel and i certainly know that is
the case so let me just take you through now what to consider when you make a YouTube thumbnail so
if you look at this thumbnail it follows these rules first of all complete use of real estate
it's using up the whole of the space secondly the image is really clear and there's movement
in it for some reason research has shown that images with movement are clicked on more often
number three there's a minimum use of two fonts I suggest three we've got three here
number four this text is super clear and so you can read the text really easily
and five a technique that's very common they put blocks behind some of the text
to make it clearer now there are there is one additional super trick that I'm going to show you
those are the five golden rules that the follow but there is an additional trick which is to do
with the title and I'm just going to explain that now just a really quick break from the video I do
run regular courses on how to set up and generate an income from YouTube particularly focusing on
educational YouTube channel if you're interested in the description below there's a link click on
that link simply add your email address when the next course comes up I will send you the
information you don't have to join but simply I'll send you the information to let you know
when the course is going to be running and how much it costs right let's get back to the video
so my bonus tip is what I call title and title in other words you've actually got
two opportunities to put the title of your video one in the thumbnail and two in the title that
you which normally appears below so what you want to do is make sure that you don't repeat the same
thing twice you can have two different ways of catching the attention of the person one through
the title that you put here and one through the title you put here and this is a perfect example
only courageous balls become masters or make a bad version of yourself first then perfect
it okay two ways of saying more or less the same thing very clever and this is a technique
it's not always easy to do this but try to think of a new version of the title when you
create the thumbnail my only tip here is keep your thumbnail titles and the real titles short this
might be slightly long but this is a very good technique and one that I'm starting to introduce
into my own videos you've got therefore two opportunities to attract the attention of the user
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