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And custom thumbnails for YouTube videos is one of the most effective ways to get more views on your

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video and have a consistent brand.

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However if you just created your youtube can't and uploaded your first video you may be seeing this

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message that you're not eligible for custom thumbnails.

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And at the moment you only have the option to select a thumbnail which is an image from the video that

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you've uploaded now to enable custom thumbnails.

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What you wanna do is go ahead and click on your icon in the top right hand corner.

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Then you want to come down into Creator studio and then you want to come down here to the left side

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bar and click on channel then you want to move down here and really click on verify.

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Now at the moment this is this YouTube channel is not verified and you can see that I am eligible for

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some stuff because some thumbnails external annotations and other important features of YouTube are

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not enabled.

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So what you want to do is go ahead and click verify.

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And here you will have a couple of options to verify your YouTube channel.

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You just firstly select your country and then you can call it with an automated voice message or text

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with a verification code.

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Now I think putting in your phone number is probably the easiest thing to do.

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So I'm just going to type this in.

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Once you put in your phone number just hit submit

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a not in the verification code once you get it by text message on your phone.

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And now this account has been verified.

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If we go back to check our status now and scroll down we can see that the custom thumbnails has been

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enabled and those other features as well.

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And returning to our video is reload the page and I can see now that I am able to upload a customized

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thumbnail.

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Now it's your turn.

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Click on your channel icon.

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Go to the creators studio and verifier can turn my channel so that you can add custom thumbnails to

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your videos and get a whole lot more views.