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Sunday 16 July 2017

YouTube now supports thumbnail slide show | check it out

The famous video site YouTube ow includes the famous video preview in thumbnails. Whenever a user puts his cursor on the top of a video thumbnail it YouTube it starts some preview of the part of the video.
GIF showing YouTube 3 sec Thumbnail Preview
   This feature is now only available in desktop sites.  The feature will show users previews of videos when they hover their cursor over the thumbnail. The previews are 3 seconds long, and are automatically selected from the first half of the video - with creators having no hand in choosing which clip is shown to users.

The new YouTube thumbnail feature is now only available in Google Chrome and Firefox. Other browsers such as Apple's Safari, Microsoft's Edge will not support this feature for YouTube.  

The major use of this feature is the viewers will not be mislead  to the videos by seeing the thumbnails where the creators will put some attractive thumbnails which will not have any touch with the video.

The announcement for the global roll out of YouTube video thumbnail previews was made on the video-sharing site's Twitter handle on Friday. There are obviously several benefits to the feature - viewers can get a glimpse of the video to decide if they want to watch it. Doing so would save time as well as the data spent watching something that they weren't looking for.

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