by Mrs.Dufresne on February 17th, 2007

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Who (or what) chooses the thumbnail image shown for videos posted on YouTube?

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by canadianhelper on February 17th, 2007
As far as I can determine it is a function of Youtube (not a human) that chooses based on the length of video. Based on the length is will choose a 'still' a certain amount into the video.

Youtube does not provide the facility to choose your own thumbnail.

http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?answer=58103&topic=10530
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