And thumbnails are indeed important for this purpose. YouTube star MrBeast has famously claimed to spend a heap of time on thumbnail creation in order to maximize viewership, paying, on average, around $10,000 per thumbnail for his clips.
TikTok is effectively following the lead of Reels in this respect, which already has custom thumbnail editing, while YouTube is developing a variation of the same for Shorts.
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