Forum Moderators: goodroi
...our previous system of choosing thumbnails from the 25, 50 and 75% marks in the video, which often led to arbitrary, uninformative or sometimes even misleading images, is now a thing of the past. When a new video comes to YouTube, we now analyze it with an algorithm whose aim is to pick a set of images that are visually representative of the content of the video. As with the ground-breaking video identification tools that we launched on YouTube last year, this system is another example of how looking inside the video can lead to a safer, more relevant experience for our users.
