Here's a beginner-friendly custom YouTube thumbnail tutorial. I even show you how to add custom thumbnails to your videos when your channel is brand new – before you have ANY subscribers or views (this can help your channel to take off a LOT faster)!
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Gillian I like the way you explain things. Keep up the inspiring work.✨🌠
This video is very helpful. Especially for people like me who love to use YouTube to promote my business to get sales and leads for my affiliate marketing. Customizing thumbnails has never been this easy and fun. This will surely help me with my business goals.
Thank you so much! Appreciate your time and effort to make these tutorials for us!
Just what I was looking for. I doubt very seriously that I can find any better explanation/tutorial anywhere on YouTube. Thank you so much for being there!
This was so helpful, exactly what I needed to know to start making thumbnails for my new videos. Thank you :)!
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great video
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So helpful & straight to the point. Thank you! ❤❤
Custom thumbnails are one of the most significant parts of getting people to watch your videos. Thanks for sharing, Gillian.
Very true
3:42 for new user !!! Thank youuu
Thank you so much💜
thank you for the timestamp
Great Video – this was so helpful. I love how simple you made it. Thanks!!!
This was so helpful and clear and easy. Thank you. I spent all morning trying to figure this out and now I have 3 new thumbnails that I keep staring at with pride! Thanks again
This video got straight to the point and did not stall. It also explained very well of how to get certain thumbnails specificly.
You are the only one who discussed about adding thumbnail for a brand new account! Glad to be here! Thank you so much..
Yeah! This really helped our channel
This did not help at all, I have chrome book
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Agreed 🙂
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I just wanted to say that this video was SUPER HELPFUL and I was able to add custom thumbnails to my videos, even though I am totally new to THIS side of YouTube (making videos, not just watching). Thank you so much!
You are the only one that explained what I needed!
Keep up the great work
That was concise and helpful, an all-too-rare nexus here on YouTube. Thanks for uploading this.
Thank you so much Gillian!! I’ve been stressing over the Thumbnails. Your video is exactly what I was looking for!
Gillian, this was just the video I’ve been looking for! I had one FAIL for a thumbnail, and I have now adjusted it to one that’s perfect. It was so easy with your instructions! Thank you for sharing.
This was so helpful @gillian Perkins I was able to use this information and add my first thumbnail successfully. I appreciate it!!