YouTube Rolls Out New Shorts Thumbnail Editing Features via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

YouTube has announced caller thumbnail editing features for iOS and Android devices.

The update allows you to adhd text, filters, and emojis to Shorts thumbnails, providing a much engaging mode to showcase content.

Additionally, you tin take and edit a Shorts thumbnail framework aft uploading a video.

New Thumbnail Editing Capabilities

To entree the caller thumbnail editing features, travel these steps:

Tap the pencil icon successful the apical near country of the Short. Scrub done the video to prime a preferred frame. Add text, emojis, oregon filters by tapping their respective icons. Save changes by tapping the checkmark successful the apical close corner.

Where Shorts Thumbnails Will Display

While these customized thumbnails won’t look successful the superior Shorts feed, they volition beryllium disposable successful respective cardinal areas:

• Search results
• Hashtag pages
• Audio pivot pages
• Creator channels
• Home and subscription feeds

Comparison With Other Platforms

Here’s however YouTube Shorts’ caller thumbnail editing features comparison against Instagram Reels and TikTok.

YouTube Shorts:

• Now offers text, emoji, and filter additions to thumbnails
• Allows post-upload thumbnail enactment and editing
• Thumbnails disposable successful search, hashtags, and transmission pages, but not successful the main Shorts feed

Instagram Reels:

• Allows customized thumbnail enactment from the video
• Offers substance overlay connected thumbnails
• Thumbnails disposable successful feed, illustration grid, and Reels tab

TikTok:

• Automatically generates thumbnails
• Limited customized thumbnail options (mainly for ads)
• Focuses much connected the archetypal framework of the video arsenic the “cover”

YouTube’s update brings it person to Instagram’s functionality for short-form videos, portion TikTok relies much connected auto-generated thumbnails.

YouTube’s attack seems to beryllium a mediate ground: It offers customization but limits visibility to circumstantial areas of the platform.

Looking Ahead

This update addresses long-standing requests from the creator community. YouTube has hinted astatine exploring much functionality for Shorts thumbnails successful the coming year.

SEJ STAFF Matt G. Southern Senior News Writer astatine Search Engine Journal

Matt G. Southern, Senior News Writer, has been with Search Engine Journal since 2013. With a bachelor’s grade successful communications, ...