Things to know about thumbnails with YouTube GIFs

We all like to use YouTube and whenever we want to watch videos online, YouTube is the first place we think about. The cool thing is that Google has just released a thumbnail feature with GIF images on YouTube. Let's see what this is good for?

Recently, a new feature has just been released on YouTube and surely everyone watching YouTube on the computer has noticed this difference. Previously, GIF thumbnails were only available to some users, but now most people can experience this.

When dragging the mouse over the video, you will see the image start moving in about 3 seconds, which is also quite useful when you want to see the content of the video. It also partly helps you know whether the video is spam or not because it has many videos using thumbnail images to view the view. GIF making as a thumbnail will help reduce this.

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GIF images will be used as YouTube thumbnails

Google also made it clear that to get a thumbnail of a GIF image, the video must be at least 30 seconds long.

Google launched this feature on YouTube from February 2017, but updates are relatively slow on user accounts. Up to now, anyone can experience on YouTube desktop, mobile versions are not currently supported. Note that the feature only supports Chrome version 32 and Opera version 19 and above.