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Recipe

Video thumbnail brief

Generate a structured creative brief from a YouTube thumbnail URL.

Overview

Paste a YouTube video link and Meridian extracts the thumbnail, analyses composition, colour palette, typography, and emotional tone, then produces a markdown creative brief you can hand to a designer.

Inputs

  • YouTube video URL (any format)
  • Optional: target audience, brand guidelines

Output

A markdown document containing composition breakdown, colour swatches with hex codes, font pairings, suggested headline copy, and three actionable improvement recommendations.

Example prompt

Analyse this thumbnail and write a creative brief: https://youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

This recipe uses the Vision pipeline. Ensure your API key has the vision:read scope enabled.