What Makes a Thumbnail Good? - For GameDevs
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- Опубликовано: 4 май 2024
- We'll go through some popular thumbnails from other youtubers and try to pick out what makes a thumbnail "great". Break down what makes them effective, and show how I make my own. Hopefully after watching this you'll have a better idea of what makes a good or bad thumbnail on youtube.
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Great observations. Yellow definitely stands out the best.
I think the but it's was good at its size since you can assume those with just the other two words and knowing that there is words between them, think like an acronym, the words that wouldn't get a letter in an acronym only matter for someone who's going to look closer to see if it's correct wording and the important thing is the words that are going to hook someone
Blending in with light mode or dark mode wasn't something I even thought about, so obvious after the fact. Great tips and great video.
Right?! Both Goodgis and Dani use a specific range of colors, and I'm wondering if those were specifically picked to avoid blending in with the youtube default colors. 🤔
Or if they're just appealing colors. 😅
@@HelperWesley The color most visible to the human eye is a strange green tending to yellow, similar to that of in green screen
Red is also good but most of colorblind people can’t see it very well
@@cerberus_des Aaahhh. Well that's interesting.
The colors they typically use are aqua, a light green, and straight bright yellow for their text. 👀
I'll have to remember that. 🤔
@@HelperWesley Remember that every color turns into one of the primary colors when it’s REEEEEEALLY saturated
Have good edits, good informations, good contents and your video is 1k. Bro you deserve more views than that.
This video is pretty niche, and isn't my usual kind of content. So I knew it wouldn't get many views when I made it.😅
But hopefully it'll help the people who are looking for this sort advice. 👍
*furiously taking notes*
AHAHA
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Great Analysis work, I also did some analysis and changes some of my Thumbnails and titles but I definitely missed the high visibility of Yellow Text and a blurry background. Thanks
And the colors they use. Both Goodgis and Dani use close to the same colors for their thumbnails, so definitely something to keep an eye on. 👀
2:32 OMG DANI
I gotta give Dani the credit they deserve. 😅
Their thumbnails are excellent. 👍
Bro i made a gdev video called
"Recreathing pong"
And the thumb is pure black except by the text in white with recreathing pong and a 45 degree angle white cube in the midle with some glow and done my best thumb is like minmalistic but very good and pleasent to the eyes
Pretty ironic that a video about getting more views has only 700 of em. Very educational anyway!
Yeah.... I made this one, kind of knowing it wasn't going to do well. 😅
It's mostly for gamedev youtubers, which is a really tiny audience, and people who watch my videos probably wouldn't watch it since it's not my usual game development content. 🤔
I mostly made it as an excuse to spend 2 weeks studying thumbnails. 🤣
maybe a video on how to create a good game thumbnail would be cool too, I always struggle with making them for itch
I'd have to learn a little more myself, before making that. But it would be a useful video. 👀
Maybe when I finish the game im working on now I'll make a video about marketing it. 🤔
Hey do you have any tips for editing a dev log I released my newest one it's better than the other ones I made but I don't really feel like I am doing it right. I followed this video for the thumbnail of my newest video and it looks a lot better than my other one's. thank you
Nice video! Your thumbnails are definitely starting to improve.
Thanks, it's a slow learning process here on RUclips. So many things to learn, such little time. 😅
This helped me a lot!
Happy to help. 👍
Have you noticed any change to the RUclips stats after making these changes? That would be an interesting video to see.
Not really in my old videos. A tiny bump in CTR, but the real change is in my newer videos. ~8 percent CTR. Which is about 3% higher than my average.
@@HelperWesley That's awesome, almost 50% increase. Great Job! I'm new to your channel and the thumbnails did help me understand your content was something I would find interesting.
Hey bro, I really like your videos. I'm trying to learn how to make Devlog Videos myself. I think I'm failing at doing good Thumbnails. Could you "Helper" and tell me what your click-through Rate is?
My click through rate balances out at 5-6% on every video.
I've found the time I spend improving the clickthrough rate actually turns in to more views instead of an actually improved CTR. When my CTR goes up to like 10%+, I'll see a big spike in impressions as YouYube shares my video around with new audiences. Which will inevitably drop my CTR, and that spike usually levels off once my CTR falls back down to 5-6%.
TLDR; RUclips analytics can be weird. 😅
@@HelperWesley But that makes sense I suppose? Interesting take, and also thanks for answering, I really appreciate it.
Great video. It's cool to see how your thumbnails have improved by simply looking at others. Do you think the videos found more viewers because of this?
For this video? No. 😅
People come to my channel for gamedev stuff, not youtube advice. I expect this video will do poorly, but will hopefully help a few people who struggle with thumbnails. 🤔
But for my other videos, better thumbnails have definitely helped. I swapped out my "one year as a youtube gamedev" thumbnail and the CTR nearly doubled. Until it balanced out again after a week or so.
Have you ever tried out rotating thumbnails in a video to see which one might work the best? Like leaving one on for a few hours then switching to another one. Would love to see a video on something like that with a dive deeper into some statistics!
I've seen larger youtubers doing that, and it's always interested me. But I don't think the number of views I get on my videos are high enough to confidently say a change was from a thumbnail change, or just a few more random people stumbled in. 😅
The only time I've seen BIG spikes after a change I made was for titles. So I do make a habit of swapping those out and trying different keywords to interest people. I remember a video getting nearly double the views from the previous few hours after adding the words "Devlog 0" to the title. 👀
@@HelperWesley Oh yeah I learned pretty quick that numbering Devlogs is definitely a factor that kills views, people look for novelty not to hop in on a long lasting series.
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Hopefully some people find it helpful. 😅
And it gave me an excuse to update some thumbnails. 👀
I have watched 100 of videos , but some how it isnt working for me and when it doesn't I end up changing it,making it even worst...😢...... Any one Help me!!!! 😢😢😢😢😢
You have 100,000 views on your channel after 4 months. I'd say that's pretty good.
I get wanting more, but you'll get better at knowing what your audience wants to watch. 👍
@HelperWesley 50% was from shots... although long format videos are doing alright but ICR is low, which is kinda hurting my videos..Channel has potential i went from 60subs to 400+ in 2 months after focusing on long videos, only if I could do something about the title and thumbnail..m pretty lost..
First(pin me pls)
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i bet he wont...