Thumbnails are the small pictures that accompany typically a YouTube video, they are the advert for the video, and therefore the producer should attempt to make them as attractive as possible to entice you in to watch the video. The default if a thumbnail isn’t deliberately produced is to grab a random still from the video being submitted and use that, something YouTube does automatically.
I’ve known about thumbnails for quite a while, and I have to confess that I don’t produce my own – or at least I haven’t done. I may do so in future. Why am I writing about sommething like thumbnails when I’ve never bothered with them before? II noticed that after last night, when I posted a video as the header, no automatic thumbnail is showing – that may have happened before, but no recently, and I’ve not noticed.
I have to be honest with you and say that having posted a video here as I did yesterday has given me a bit of a bug. I’m keen to do it again. So I may post another sometime in the near future.
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