Sharing answers to top q's we’re seeing about the thumbnail experiment: – Custom thumbs aren't going away – 99.7% still see the creator's custom thumbnail – A lot of creators use auto-generated thumbnails, this test helps improve them for those using them: https://goo.gl/A7oDmr
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And this is actually a top request we get from creators who use auto-generated thumbnails. The data and insights we'll get from this small test will help us improve their effectiveness across all of YouTube (and benefit a lot of people).
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Apart from you're just going to use that to censor and shit on smaller channels anyway, which is all you've been doing these past 6 months. We all know we were thinking the same thing.
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No one denies that. BUT if they do use custom thumbnails thumbnails YouTube should have never removed them for auto generated ones with out first letting people opt in or out of the test.
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Oh yeah. That's a problem. Communicating this upfront would have made it tons better for everyone.
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As someone who used to do YouTube on a small scale, I call this bullshit. I made my own thumbnails from start.
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I'm glad you saw the significance of a custom thumbnail from the beginning. Not everyone's experience or priorities are same. Several news, eduction, radio content creators still rely on auto-generated for different reasons. So better system made suggestions will help them.
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Thank you. As a budding Creator, I loved the suggestions YouTube provides. New Creators have to start some where. Everyone was clueless at some point.
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Little late here, but as a hobbyist creator, thumbnail making is one of the easiest things. GIMP and 10 minutes (usually done while the video is rendering) and that custom thumb is vastly better than anything generated. Only time I use auto is when I dont care about the thumbnail
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The problem is that it means those creators probably don't have the time or resources to create high quality/ prepared and researched videos either. Not against help finding key frames to use but some minutes could surely be spared for costumization.
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