Are you using Thumbnails in Shorts?

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andreaissabel

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YT make shorts thumbnails available in my channel and I started to upload AI slop like this

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I think you need to enrich the content with truly stunning and beautiful images.
 
Yes, for some short videos, I used thumbnails. But I think short videos are the first 3/4 seconds very important to stay audience in your video. Short video hook is most important.
 
Yes, there's a lot of short content that also gets a lot of views from YouTube searches; thumbnails are very important.
 
hi i really think custom thumbnails can help but quality and originality matters the most or more.
 
I think using AI-generated images as thumbnails isn’t very effective.
 
I use thumbnails sometimes, but I am not sure they make a big difference for Shorts. The first frame seems more important to me.
 
Yes I think thumbnails can still help Shorts stand out especially when people are browsing your channel A strong simple thumbnail that matches the video can make a noticeable difference
 
For Shorts, I don’t put much weight on thumbnails since most views come from the Shorts feed. I’d rather spend the effort on the first second of the video than on an AI thumbnail.
 
For Shorts, I think the thumbnail should be simple. One clear image is enough, no need to add lots of text.
 
Nobody clicks thumbnails on Shorts, they just swipe. Custom AI thumbnails do zero for the algorithm. The only numbers that matter are your first 2 seconds and getting retention over 80%. Stop uploading slop and fix your video pacing instead
 
Thumbnails on shorts don't work tbh. Whatever we select within the shorts video is what shows to the audience. 90% of the time, the thumbnails don't matter since the video watches is from the shorts feed.
 
No. I am not using thumbnails on YouTube Shorts. Is not necessary, I think. The first few seconds of short videos are very important.
 
Cloud Elite said:
No. I am not using thumbnails on YouTube Shorts. Is not necessary, I think. The first few seconds of short videos are very important.
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Thumbnails definitely do help to drive extra engagement though, not as much as with long form videos, but they do make a slight difference.
 
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