5 Mistakes You Need To Avoid While Designing A YouTube Thumbnail!

YouTube is currently the second most viewed website, with over 50 million YouTube channels. All YouTubers are racing to attract a new crowd with every video upload. The key to gaining viewers and subscribers is excellent content, but why will viewers bother to click on the video if they don't find the thumbnail attractive and informative enough?

Your best work will be unseen if you don't design a good thumbnail. Customized thumbnails created by good offline and a digital PR agency are a win-win for any YouTuber to attract a crowd to its YouTube channel. Thumbnails are not challenging to design, but not everyone can avoid common mistakes while creating a YouTube thumbnail.

Common Mistakes Done While Designing A Thumbnail

1. Keeping it basic and playing safe.

Thumbnails are supposed to be bold and expressive so that it doesn’t get lost and scrolled through on the search page. Using attractive fonts and boldface expressions will make people wonder if the video is as good as the thumbnail.

1. Forgetting the colour contrast factor.

To make it pop up in the viewer's eyes, the too loud technique will not work. Neither should you use too dull colours that seem unattractive. Try and balance a bold with a soothing colour for background and text. Colour contrasting is an essential factor; thus, many YouTubers reach out to offline and a digital PR agency for perfect thumbnails.

1. Adding too much.

A Thumbnail should be a frame that discloses what topic the video covers in short. It would help if you did not try to fill the thumbnail with every subheading covered because it will ultimately hide the catchphrase that was supposed to stand out.

1. Adding topics irrelevant to what the video covers.

To gain views on a video, many creators add phrases and topics that are not even related to the content of the video. This frustrates viewers and disappoints; viewers may dislike the video or even report your channel. Keep the text on your thumbnail catchy, relevant and short.

1. Not designing a separate thumbnail.

When the video creator does not provide a thumbnail, YouTube itself chooses a random frame from the video as a cover. This random frame can be very unattractive, and viewers may find it unprofessional. When competing with creators who approach PR agencies for thumbnail designing, the thumbnail that YouTube selects for you with no effort put in, there are fewer chances for you to win.

Conclusion

We have a lot of intelligent viewers who decide the quality of content just by looking at the YouTube video's thumbnail. Half the effort you put into your video to design a thumbnail will boost your views and subscriber count. Choosing a random frame as a thumbnail will be left unseen amongst a crowd of professionally designed thumbnails. Reaching out to good PR agencies for professional thumbnail designing is best when you see YouTube as a platform to earn money, promote brands, products, etc.

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