How to customize the thumbnails of your videos on YouTube

Being able to customize a thumbnail is a main detail when publishing a video on your YouTube channel, allowing other people to have a clearer idea about the content and most of all to enhance your creativity when making them for the public in general and mount them as covers for your videos, how can you customize? And, are there requirements or standards for it? Stay for much more information in this article.

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1. What requirements must you meet to personalize your videos with thumbnails on YouTube?
2. How to add a thumbnail to a YouTube channel that is not verified?
   1. From the Android or iOS mobile
   2. With your Windows PC or Mac
3. What things cannot be put on a YouTube channel thumbnail?
   1. What dimensions should it have?
4. How to modify a thumbnail of an already uploaded YouTube video?

What requirements must you meet to personalize your videos with thumbnails on YouTube?

Specific measurements are needed for the images and you even have to know the right kind of image and what makes the public understand at a glance, but as for the measurements of the custom thumbnails, try to make it as large as possible like these:

1. Have a resolution of 1280 × 720 (with a minimum width of approximately 640 pixels).
2. Upload image formats like .JPG, .GIF or .PNG.
3. A maximum file size of 2 MB is required.
4. It uses a 16: 9 aspect ratio, it is used more in YouTube players and previews regularly.

How to add a thumbnail to a YouTube channel that is not verified?

As the main thing, it is preferable to be able to verify your YouTube channel not only to choose to have different functions available, but also to publish videos that can last more than 14 minutes and of course the personalized thumbnails, but you can do all this when you have verified your channel . Also, the steps are very simple. Here’s how to do it from the following computers:

From the Android or iOS mobile

Verifying your YouTube channel from your cell phone will also allow you to enable the different functions that it offers you , regardless of what type of brand your mobile phone has , in fact the same functions apply to the vast majority, making it possible for you to have a better guide. Now, in order to verify your YouTube channel, follow these steps:

1. Open any browser you have installed such as Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Edge, among others.
2. Go in and use youtube.com/verify for easy YouTube phone verification.
3. You will need to enter your email information to enter YouTube (username and password).
4. Now, YouTube will ask you for two options to receive a code, either by message or by call, choose the one of your preference, select your country and enter your phone number, finally, click on “get code”.
5. In the next box that will show you, you must enter the code that should come to youfor the option you chose previously, you have 30 seconds to do it.
6. Then your channel will be verified and you will be able to enjoy all the available functions.

With your Windows PC or Mac

To verify it, it is necessary that you have a cell phone in use so that you can be allowed to receive a code and enter them to be able to access YouTube and have all the options enabled or suitable to start publishing your preferred videos and thumbnails, follow these steps:

1. Go to YouTube and log in at the top left.
2. Enter your email information with which you started on YouTube.
3. Press your YouTube channel icon on the top left and click on “ YouTube Studio”.
4. Enter the “settings” option.
5. A panel will open, click on “channel” and then on ” advanced settings“.
6. Scroll down, you will have several options, click on “Status and Features”.
7. In this tab you will be able to see the suitable functions and after a few tools that you can use, now, on the icon of your channel, click on “verify”.
8. Enter your country, select the option you prefer to receive a code from your cell phone, enter the phone number and then click “send”.
9. When doing so, you will have to have received a 6-digit code to enter it and then press “send”, and that’s it! Now you can upload a video to YouTube successfully from PC .

What things cannot be put on a YouTube channel thumbnail?

YouTube is a network that has a lot of quite broad content, where there is a mandatory guideline also for the thumbnails of the videos, being possible the rejection of those thumbnails and receiving an offense where the privileges of using custom thumbnails for 30 days are withdrawn, or a closure of your account in case of having this type of content at a glance:

• Images of sexual content and even nudity.
• Incitement to violence.
• Images of harmful and even dangerous content.

What dimensions should it have?

The size and resolution of the images for the thumbnails of the videos must be between 1280 × 720 resolution , and of course, with a minimum width of approximately 640 pixels.

How to modify a thumbnail of an already uploaded YouTube video?

There are different options when it comes to publishing your thumbnail for your videos and publishing them, you can even take a screenshot of your own video and customize it , or even upload it directly from your library and to do so, follow these steps:

1. Enter the asset library that contains your video.
2. Click on the image of the video that you want the selection check box to appear.
3. Then, click on the image to open the ” Video Player” page.
4. On the other hand, being on the “Video Player” page, choose the “Manage” tab on the ribbon.
5. Right in the “actions” group, click on ” Edit properties“.
6. Then, click on “change thumbnail” to choose one of the following options:

• • Capture a video thumbnail.
  • Use a team image.
  • Use an image from a web address.