Thumbnail: A thumbnail is a photo representation of a video. Thumbnails are used on YouTube and other video hosting services to ‘control’ the image that is shown on your browser before the video starts playing.

Most hosting platforms allow you to upload a custom thumbnails so you can control that image.

This is a sample of my thumbnails for one of my VLOGs and what YouTube would have selected randomly:

 

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