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If you’re posting videos on YouTube, it’s important to make your thumbnails as engaging as possible because YouTube is primarily a visual platform where people watch videos. Viewers will look at thumbnails before they read the title of your video. <\/p>\n

Simplified has a variety of templates that you can choose from to create thumbnails for your YouTube videos. Browse through different options or sort by category.<\/p>\n

Click on one that you like and then make any edits as you see fit.<\/p>\n

Once you’re done, you can export the image and you’ll have a perfectly sized YouTube thumbnail that you can use right away.<\/p>\n

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