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TikTok thumbnails are a great way to make your account standout But what’s even cooler? If you look at my tiktok account you’ll notice my thumbnails are pinned together at the top of my profile to make this awesome banner It’s a great way to really highlight a call to action and is shockingly easy So, In this video, I’m going to breakdown how to make your own in 5 easy steps CREATE YOUR BANNER (TEXT) First up you’re going to want to design the banner The one holistic image that is going to be cut into three sections and then placed into three tiktoks to create the appearance of a single banner image To do this you’re going to be creating one image that is 1260 X 654 pixels That’s the size of three tiktoks side by side You can create this in canva or adobe suite - I make mine in adobe but that’s just personal preference As you design the banner you’ll want to keep in mind that this is going to be mostly viewed on small phones so I recommend doing a few things to make it stand out Ideally try and have high contrastu002Fbright imagery Limit the amount of text - but make it as big and bold as possible And where possible limit to a single point of focus You don’t want it too cluttered with stuff because then everything is going to be sooo small no one is going to be able to see it on their phone You’ll notice with mine I use really bright colors - primarily red, white, and yellow (although there is a little bit of black to really accentuate the text) And I’ve got one clear image (me) and I’m actually reinforcing the message of the text by my pointing SPLICE THE BANNER Once you’re done you’ll cut it into three separate images And each should be 420X654 This is the size of each individual tiktok thumbnail ADD TO THE EDIT Now once you’ve got each of these images you’ll want to ad each image to three 3 different videos I use adobe rush But any editing software works Just make sure it appears for several frames You’ll want to extend the number of frames based off the length of the video For a typical tiktok that’s around half a minute 24 frames, or about 1 second is more than enough time for the thumbnail to appear But, you’ll want to extend that and give yourself more time - maybe up to 2-3 seconds to make sure you can find it once you’re getting into the 3-5 minute range I’ll show you why this is important in a second Also, one thing I’ve gotten questions about is whether or not the videos need to be related My recommendation is that is probably ideal but not absolutely necessary For example, each of my pinned videos that make up the banner have a call to action to sign up for my newsletter EXPORT AND SELECT Now that you’ve got your thumbnail added to the tiktok and you’re video is fully edited - how do you make sure you’re thumbnail is featured when you upload your tiktok? Here’s how you do that After that export each video - open tiktok - Upload each - Just make sure to select cover Scroll - Stop at thumbnail - Click Save - Then post Now, when you upload tiktoks you’re scrolling through the timeline to select your thumbnail image - this is tougher as a video gets longer - you have to be more precise and because you’re doing all this with your thumb it can be a bit difficult to nail down PIN THEM TOGETHER Once you’ve got the three videos uploaded You’ll want to pin them in reverse order So you’ll pin the image for the right hand side first The middle one second and the first one last Boom that’s it! Hit me with a subscribe if you liked this video