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Video posts need a thumbnail - be great to use the existing YouTube thumbnail image

When you make a post that features a YouTube video you don't have a thumbnail on the post so it isn't very attractive in the menu. It would be great to pick up the default image thumbnail from YouTube.

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Former Google Contributor
Status changed to: Voting open

Hi @PaulPavlinovich, thank you for sharing this idea with us. 

 

May I check - do you mean you want to insert a small sized video into posts using thumbnails, like the Local Guides on YouTube? Not the regular size?

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Hi @Atsukot when you're looking at the posts in the topic, video posts end up with a generic thumbnail. What I would like to see is a still from the video instead of the generic thumbnail.

 

example post thumbnailsexample post thumbnails

The right hand post has several videos. I'd love to see one of the thumbnails from the video instead of the generic graphic.

 

Regards Paul

Former Google Contributor

Got it! Thank you so much for details @PaulPavlinovich

Former Google Contributor
Status changed to: Closed

Hi @PaulPavlinovich, I will change the status to "Closed"for now, but we will revisit this later. Thank you!