Fixing My Viewers YouTube Thumbnails in 15 Minutes!
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- čas přidán 2. 06. 2024
- One of the most important aspects to getting a CZcams video to rank in search or be suggested in the algorithm is your CTR or Click-through rate, this means you need a great thumbnail to make people click your videos!
Today we’re walking you through how to make your thumbnails MORE clickable to your audience, which means getting more views, and we’re going to be looking at YOUR thumbnails you submitted to us, and fixing them in under 15 minutes!
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What Makes A CZcams Thumbnail Clickable?
The most important thing you have to think about is your audience, or if you don’t have an audience yet, your key demographic and what is going to make them click on your thumbnail.
What intent do they have, and what can you do to match that intent and get the click.
First let’s ask the most important question, Who is your key demographic? What does your Key Demographic want? And How can you appeal to them as a creator? This is how you create CZcams thumbnails to get more views!
My actionable tip here is that you need to think about your key demographic and audience, then make a thumbnail that appeals to them, not just looks beautiful, most of my thumbnails from a graphic design standpoint kinda aren't great but they appeal to their audience so they do well.
🕘Timestamps:
0:00 What Stops New CZcamsrs Getting Views
0:36 Fixing My Viewers Battle Royal CZcams Thumbnail
1:39 How To Make An Unknown Niche Topic Clickable For Views
4:00 Final Results For Thumbnail One
4:42 Fixing My Viewers Podcast CZcams Thumbnail
5:55 Why You Should NEVER Include Episode Numbers In Thumbnails
6:30 How To Simplify Your Thumbnails To Get Views
8:23 Final Results For Thumbnail Two
9:05 Why Your Ideas Are Holding You Back
10:13 Fixing My Viewers Pokemon CZcams Thumbnail
10:30 How To Make An Idea That's Been Done Before Clickable
12:35 Final Results For Thumbnail Three
13:14 Fixing My Viewers Speedrunning CZcams Thumbnail
13:34 How To Steal Thumbnail Ideas To Grow
14:24 Final Results For Thumbnail Four
14:47 Fixing My Viewers CZcams Shorts Thumbnail
15:24 Why Overcomplicated Your Thumbnails Is Awful
15:57 How To Tell A Story With A CZcams Thumbnail
16:38 Final Results For Thumbnail Five
16:55 Why Changing Thumbnails Can Save Bad Videos
How to Make a Thumbnail for CZcams Videos?
CZcams thumbnails are an incredibly important element of your video optimization. One of the most important aspects to getting a CZcams video to rank in search or be suggested in the algorithm is your CTR or Click-through rate, this means you need an amazing thumbnail to make people click your videos!
When it comes to making a good CZcams Thumbnail, it is important to remember to keep it simple, and that means it is so important to simplify them down as much as possible.
My three major rules of a good simple thumbnail.
1. A clear simple background
2. Only 3 major elements, such as Face, Visuals, and text.
3. Remove any visuals that don’t help tell the story of the video
Don't forget that CZcams Thumbnails end up much smaller when uploaded, so the larger and simpler you can make your Thumbnails the better they'll perform meaning a higher Click-through rate and more views in general.
The style of this video is similar to Alpha Gaming and Gaming Careers in parts. A large influence on this series has come from content creators like Justin Brown - Primal Videos and Vanessa Lau.
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Hey Gang! I hope seeing my thought process while time restricted was helpful! The takeaway really should be: Idea is everything. How can you make a simple, relatable, but most importantly interesting thumbnail for your viewers? If I had more time or was doing this for my own channel, I'd likely have spent about 2-3 hours on each thumbnail but figured this was a better format. Have a great day!
🕘Timestamps:
0:00 What Stops New CZcamsrs Getting Views
0:36 Fixing My Viewers Battle Royal CZcams Thumbnail
1:39 How To Make An Unknown Niche Topic Clickable For Views
4:00 Final Results For Thumbnail One
4:42 Fixing My Viewers Podcast CZcams Thumbnail
5:55 Why You Should NEVER Include Episode Numbers In Thumbnails
6:30 How To Simplify Your Thumbnails To Get Views
8:23 Final Results For Thumbnail Two
9:05 Why Your Ideas Are Holding You Back
10:13 Fixing My Viewers Pokemon CZcams Thumbnail
10:30 How To Make An Idea That's Been Done Before Clickable
12:35 Final Results For Thumbnail Three
13:14 Fixing My Viewers Speedrunning CZcams Thumbnail
13:34 How To Steal Thumbnail Ideas To Grow
14:47 Fixing My Viewers CZcams Shorts Thumbnail
15:24 Why Overcomplicated Your Thumbnails Is Awful
15:57 How To Tell A Story With A CZcams Thumbnail
You make it sound so easy bro it's so insane I'm just gonna sit in a corner and make the most simple thumbnails known to man
The quality of content you produce is next level Eljay and it has massively helped my content change and grow, not to mention the free overlays! Thanks as always mate!
Love all of your educational work. They always remind me to keep working on my work even when I think they're finished. I'll be crafting titles and thumbnail concepts from now on because of this. Thank you Eljay
I appreciate you doing this for your viewers. I am gonna try to use some of these tops when i get my first long form video up
Amazing video! Really liked the first thumbnail, imma try to recreate that somehow, I have a plan
Thank you for your insights and helping us be better creators!
i literally love this channel
Sorry if I missed it in the video, but what are you using to cut out your images. so you find an image of chimchar online, then its cut out perfect in the editor. Is this a program, or are you trimming them manually?
"Now I'm really struggling to draw the viewer's eye to the mouse inside the butt"... not something you hear every day, eh? Solid explanation of the thought process and some great take-away tips to remember! o7
Hope it helped, Cush :)
I was watching all your videos about Twitch and I was having trouble choosing what to highlight on twitch. I'm not sure where to start. I stream 3 times a week 4hours each time and it would be super difficult to actually watch the entire VOD. Do you end up just skimming through it or do you have a way to flag what you care about while streaming?
Hey!
Thank you for this crash course on Thumbnails. I was just starting again to "create" content and looking back at what i made... it is terrbile. Thank you very much for the advise.
Btw: isnt 17 min a bit long for a sales pitch on your shorts video? ;)
not the direction I would have gone for a lot of these thumbnails, but good vid
Looking back a lot of these I have big changes but that’s the point of the time limit, to force creative solutions quickly for practice
11:25 Sorry for making you rage quit the Thumb 8 times xD. But tbh I've done the exact same with this thumb. Definitely got some good ideas from all of these fixes!
Since starting uploading again I wonder if these changes are something I'm also missing. Ill give it a try thanks!
This video was really fun to watch, you should milk this video idea some more ngl.
Do you have any tips or maybe a video coming up sooner or later about thumbnails for livestreams? I've noticed when I put some effort into the thumbnail for my livestreams I get some clicks but I'm not sure if the game tips apply or if there are some different strategies to get peoples attention.
Same concept as this video mate :)
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I set up my twitch alerts and tested it on OBS it worked but when I stream and someone follows it doesn't show how do I fix this
Just out of curiosity, what thumbnail program do you use?
Not sure if I missed it or not
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God no, watch my videos on gear
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Correct me if im wrong or its that i work different but isnt this teaching others the bad way to clickbait? I get attracting viewers and clicks but lets take the podcast example, if im attracted to the edited thumbnail and listen to the podcast, im going to feel like i wasted my time when there isnt this crazy story on how a rat was found on a patient or them etc etc when the thumbnail kind of gave me that expectation. This style of making thumbnail are for the big channels that make hella clickbaity thumbnails but ultinately doesnt matter because their sub count and overall channel size will do all of the pulling....but for smaller creators its an easy way of shriking your audience when they know youre all clickbait and 0 entertainment and content
Clickbait is only bad if you don’t deliver.
If they actually tell stories that match the package it isn’t bad. My example is only an example, I’m never saying to lie about the content, just that you need to find the actual valuable interesting part and put that front and centre.
The issue, as I explain in the video, is almost none of the videos in this have actual reasons to click, I’m having to invent them for the purpose of making the video clickable.
But again, I don’t think I ever say to lie or mislead, just to actually focus on the contents actual value and reason to click.