Nate and Julia are talking through common thumbnail mistakes they see and how to learn from them as a creator.
01:15 Learning from Mistakes
02:20 When to Produce Your Thumbnail
09:31 Planning Your Idea
14:58 Imagery
20:30 Design Mistakes
25:00 Refreshing the Format
26:00 Post-Publishing
31:20 The 5 S’s
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