Premium YouTube thumbnail partner for creators and brands.
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Trusted by creators, channels and brands.
WHY IRIS
A long-term thumbnail partner, not another one-off designer.
IRIS takes ongoing responsibility for your thumbnails — designing around each video, developing alternatives to test, and applying useful learning to future uploads.
Designed Around Each Video
Every thumbnail starts with the video’s premise, hook and story — not a fixed template.
Alternatives Worth Testing
Depending on the agreed scope, we develop light variations or different concept directions so you or your team have meaningful options to test.
Learning Across Uploads
You run the tests in YouTube. We interpret the evidence and carry forward only the learnings that are actually supported.
Built for the YouTube Feed
Every thumbnail is designed to work where it matters most: crowded feeds, small screens and fast viewer decisions.
BUILT FROM EXPERIENCE
The experience behind IRIS.
IRIS was founded by Sebas, a qualified graphic designer with more than four years of professional experience working as a freelance YouTube thumbnail designer for creators and brands. That experience covered the full process — concept development, design, revisions, client communication and ongoing delivery — and made one thing clear: channels don’t need more isolated thumbnail files. They need someone who can take responsibility for the work across uploads. IRIS was built around that responsibility. We design for each video, develop alternatives according to scope, learn from client-run tests and apply what is genuinely useful to future uploads.
IRIS is built around ongoing thumbnail ownership: understand the channel,
design for the video, develop alternatives, test and apply what we learn.
Step 01Our process
Channel Context
Before the first video, we learn the channel's content, audience,
desired perception, references, restrictions and current thumbnail process.
IRIS does not guarantee specific CTR, views, subscribers or revenue results.
We focus on what we can control: concept quality, visual execution,
testing alternatives and evidence-based learning across uploads.
LOOKING FOR AN ONGOING THUMBNAIL PARTNER?
Make thumbnails one less thing to manage.
Tell us about your channel, upload cadence and what you’re looking to delegate. We’ll review the fit and, if it makes sense, show you how IRIS could support your thumbnails on an ongoing basis.
Available for selected creators, brands and YouTube channels.