Steve

A lot of thumbnail advice boils down to:

Use bigger text.
Add arrows.
Make it pop.
Use a shocked face.

But there's a bigger question:

Most competitor research starts with:

Who makes videos about the same thing I do?

But that's not always how competition works.

I m a co-founder building TubeIQ, a YouTube intelligence platform designed to help creators, marketers, and channel teams answer one important question:

What should I create next?