Use YouTube custom Thumbnails to increase organic traffic

1. Increase YouTube Views with
Custom Thumbnail Science
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2. About Jeremy Vest
> Worked with many of the worlds top brands
> Have over 300 million views to my credit
> Owner of YouTube certified company Vidpow.com
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3. What are YouTube
Custom Thumbnails?
Your videos billboard
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5. Why are YouTube Custom
Thumbnails so Important?
Biggest source of organic traffic for many channels through suggest videos
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7. How to Enable YouTube
Custom Thumbnails
If Your Account is verified and in good standing you can upload custom icons
https://www.youtube.com/verify
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9. How to Add YouTube
Custom Thumbnails
Go to the video you want to edit and upload your image
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11. How to Make YouTube
Custom Thumbnails
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1280x720 PX
16:9 Aspect Ratio

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Saturate color

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Over Sharpen

15. Eyes, Emotion & Excitement
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17. What in the world is that?
& keep it Close
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19. A dog can’t be a cat
I would show a clip from the actual video because view duration is so important.
Don’t use a thumbnail that does not truly represent the video.
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20. Custom Thumbnails Examples
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Show Results

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Typography & Contrast

23. Branding & the connection
theory
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26. Custom Thumbnails A&B Testing
Using Adwords for Video
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Views to Impression Testing

28. Tracking Success
Body copy goes here and such
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YouTube Analytics / Traffic Sources / suggested Videos

30. Thanks
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