How To Remove Thumbnail From Youtube Livestream

Are you frustrated by the low-quality thumbnail options YouTube auto-generated for you lot?

Are you looking to change(or set) custom thumbnails for your YouTube videos?

In this commodity, nosotros give y'all easy footstep-past-stride instructions on:

1. How to modify a thumbnail on YouTube for a video that'south already been published.

2. How to add together a custom thumbnail while you're publishing a video to YouTube.

How to Change a Thumbnail on YouTube For a Published Video

Your YouTube account doesn't come with the power to upload custom thumbnails by default. In order for your account to gain this ability, yous need to commencement enable the custom thumbnail selection.

One time enabled, the process of setting a custom thumbnail for a published video is straightforward and involves just a few clicks.

ane. Log in to YouTube.

2. Click on your profile icon in the meridian right corner and select YouTube Studio(beta)' from the dropdown menu.

YouTube studio beta

3. Click on the 'Videos' tab on the left side of the page and then click on the title or thumbnail of the video for which you want to alter the thumbnail.

YouTube studio videos tab

4. In the adjacent screen that appears, nether the 'Basic' tab, y'all'd run across a department named 'Thumbnail'. Under this section, you'd see iii auto-generated thumbnail options and a button on the far left that says 'Custom thumbnail'. Click on this button to upload your custom image.

v. Now select the file you'd want to set as a thumbnail and click 'Open up'. Make sure that it adheres to all the technical recommendations. In the example below, the selected image has been optimized for the all-time YouTube thumbnail size, is nether ii MB, is in PNG format and follows the 16:9 aspect ratio.

6. Finally, click on the 'Salve' button in the top-right corner of the page. This volition salvage the changes and apply the thumbnail to your video.

When you visit your channel, y'all'll now come across that the thumbnail is live! Wondering how you lot could set up a custom thumbnail to a video while getting it published? Read on to learn how you could practice that.

How to Add a Custom Thumbnail While Publishing a Video

YouTube makes it easy to set a custom thumbnail to a video while publishing it.

Subsequently successfully uploading your video, y'all'd run across a section at the lesser of the page named 'VIDEO THUMBNAILS' with three images. These images are screenshots from the video you just uploaded and have been auto-generated past YouTube then you could set one of them as your video thumbnail.

YouTube video thumbnails section

To the correct of these thumbnail images, y'all'd see a button that says 'Custom thumbnail'. Simply click on this button to upload and set the image of your choice as a thumbnail of the video.

One time y'all've successfully set your custom image as a thumbnail of the video, you can run across a preview of it in the height left corner of the page.

If for some reason, you want to modify the prototype you just uploaded, you lot could practise that by clicking on the same image at the bottom of the page to swap it with another one.