YouTube shorts are 15-60 second videos uploaded by creators for engaging audiences on their channels.
YouTube shorts are informational, and entertaining and can be short forms of the youtube video.
People like, follow and comment on YouTube shorts. Its trends are increasing day by day.
YouTube has exciting thumbnails which attract the audience to click on the video and watch.
But nowadays creators are complaining that youtube shorts thumbnails are not showing.
In this article, we are going to explain why YouTube Shorts thumbnails are not showing and how to fix it.
Why YouTube Shorts Thumbnail Not Showing?
As YouTube Shorts have a 9:16 aspect ratio or in vertical size that’s why the thumbnail does not fit in YouTube shorts.
It does not matter if you upload a unique thumbnail or select one from the video, neither one updates on your channel or appears in user searches.
YouTube Shorts only pick up thumbnails randomly from videos and use that as a thumbnail of the video.
YouTube shorts give you three default thumbnails chosen from the video, you can only select from these.
YouTube will show thumbnail in Shorts only when you get suggested video in YouTube feed if custom thumbnail available.
How To Fix YouTube Shorts Thumbnail Not Showing?
To fix YouTube Shorts Thumbnail not showing you have to follow the steps below:
1. Create A Good Quality Video
Create a good quality video so that whichever random thumbnail YouTube picks from your YouTube shorts, it must be visible properly.
2. Choose The Perfect Thumbnail
- Create a Short by opening the YouTube app.
- The short video is on YouTube.
- Open the YouTube Studio for your channel on a desktop computer.
- On the left navigation menu, select content.
- Choose your video and click on the pencil icon to edit.
- Add a unique thumbnail to your shorts from the given three thumbnails.
3. Add Thumbnail Using Chrome Desktop
- Open the YouTube.com
- Enable the Desktop site by clicking on three dots in the upper right-hand corner.
- Click on ‘YouTube Studio’ >> Channel Content >> Choose YouTube shorts video >> Upload thumbnails >>Upload >>Save.
4. Contact YouTube Support Team
If the problem is not fixed try contacting the youtube support team. Ask them to fix the ‘YouTube shorts’ Thumbnail not showing, they will definitely tell you the solution to fixing it.
That’s all you need to do to fix ‘YouTube Shote thumbnails not showing.
