

The YouTube Thumbnail Grabber takes care of that little hurdle.

On top of which, YouTube lets video producers include specially prepared thumbnails for their submissions to make their creations more enticing to folks as they browse, so we know that thumbnail images are present on the site in abundance. It can even be frustrating-a visit to the site shows thumbnails in heavy use as you browse through the video selections. Granted, YouTube doesn’t really provide an easy way to get thumbnails and/or screencaps of videos that’ll serve well for this purpose. I do find it somewhat surprising, however, that I encounter quite a number of sites that don’t present their YouTube video choices well, particularly those who simply do text links and descriptions. Sharing, even curating and embedding, YouTube videos is a popular way to produce content for websites, and done well, a pretty good one at that.
