Thumbnails built for the click.

A custom YouTube thumbnail from Shinel Studios is ₹499 one-off for channels not yet monetized (₹629 for monetized channels), and thumbnails are included in most monthly plans on the pricing page. Gaming livestream templates start at ₹100 each on the 15/month plan.

A YouTube thumbnail should be 1280x720 pixels, 16:9, under 2MB, in JPG, PNG or WEBP. That is YouTube's own specification. The part that matters more: it is displayed as small as 168x94 in sidebars, so anything that is not legible at that size is decoration rather than design.

Contrast, a single focal point, and legibility at mobile size do most of the work. Over 70% of viewing is on phones, where a thumbnail renders roughly the size of a postage stamp — so three words beat eight, one face beats a crowd, and high luminance separation beats a clever composition. We measure these before shipping; the same checks run free in our thumbnail clickability tool.

Standard turnaround is 24 to 48 hours, and gaming livestream template swaps come back in 3 to 4 hours. If something will miss, you hear before the deadline rather than after it.

We design variants and compare them, because a single thumbnail is design rather than packaging. You can also preview any thumbnail at real YouTube sizes before publishing with our free A/B previewer, which renders it at sidebar, search and home-feed dimensions.

You get the exported thumbnail plus the layered source file, so you or anyone else can edit it later. We work in Photoshop and Illustrator rather than template tools, and we hand over the sources on every project — editing is not a business you should be locked into.

Yes, and gaming is the niche we do most. BGMI, Free Fire and general livestream packaging are regular work, including starting-soon screens and stream-ready template sets. There is a dedicated livestream template service with its own pricing.