When your content is uploaded on Dailymotion, our platform will automatically select a moment within your content and use it as the content thumbnail.
Dailymotion allows you to customize your thumbnail, depending on your account level.
In this article, you'll learn why the thumbnail customization is important, and the different options available to edit your thumbnail.
Why customizing your thumbnail is important?
Thumbnails are most of the time the first visual impressions viewers can have from your content from search results or browsing your channel. Therefore, customizing your thumbnails allows you to:
- Differenciate - a custom thumbnail will help your content to stand out from the masses
- Set users expectations - thumbnails can give additional insights on your content or highlight a specific moment
- Shareable - An engaging thumbnail can encourage more shares and clicks on your content
Thumbnail customization options
Dailymotion allows you to use 2 different options to manage your thumbnails:
|
Users |
Partners | Advanced | |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Use frame from your content as a thumbnail |
✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
|
Upload your own thumbnail |
✘ | ✘ | ✔ |
Use a frame from your content as a thumbnail
- From your Dailymotion Studio, go in Media > Videos
- Click on the video you want to edit
- On the Video details page, use the video Player to find the frame you want to use
- Click on the Use frame button to save the chosen frame as video thumbnail
Upload your own thumbnail
- From your Dailymotion Studio, go in Media > Videos
- Click on the video you want to edit
- On the Video details page, click on Upload image and choose an image file
- Click on Save
Thumbnail Specifications
| Minimum dimensions (width and height) | 640 x 360 pixels |
|---|---|
| Maximum dimensions (width and height) | 5000 x 5000 pixels |
| Maximum file size | 5MB |
| File format | JPEG, PNG or GIF |
| Color system | No CMYK - Only Grayscale, 8bit palette or RGB depending on the file format |
| External URLs (for API) | Only 3 redirect are followed in case of external URLs |
Extended header data & Image for the web
When an image is uploaded on the platform, our system checks a small part of the file header to make sure that the image is compliant with our requirements (size, pixels, dimensions...)
If the image has been modified through an editor (Photoshop, Illustrator...), the image may have extended data, which modifies the file headers. We're not reading the complete header in order to be able to process more data and more images at the same time.
It means that if the header is too large, and if we are not able to read the image specifications, we won't accept the file on our platform.