YouTube Video Preview (Live 100-Character Title Check)

YouTube lets a title run to 100 characters, but the feed only ever shows about two lines before it ellipsizes — and on a phone that’s often closer to 50–60 visible characters. Unlike Instagram or Facebook there is no “… more” link to expand a title in the feed; whatever falls past the second line is simply gone from that card. So the title’s job is to land the hook and the keyword inside that window, with the payoff never buried at the end.

This preview clamps your title to exactly two lines the way the card does, so you can read the truncated version cold and ask the only question that matters: does this make someone stop and click? The character counter under the field enforces the 100-character cap (YouTube rejects longer titles), and the two-line clamp shows you the much tighter practical limit the feed imposes on top of it.

YouTube’s video card is structurally unlike a social “post” card, and this preview matches it rather than forcing a generic feed layout onto it. The thumbnail comes first at a true 16:9 with rounded corners; below it sits a circular channel avatar, the two-line title in YouTube’s near-black, and a single grey meta line in the familiar “channel • views • time” pattern. There is no action bar, no verified badge, and no menu — none of those appear on this card, and inventing them would make the mockup less faithful, not more.

The view count and timestamp on the meta line are neutral placeholder furniture, not real metrics — the tool never fabricates engagement numbers. What it does get exactly right is the character math: the 100-character title cap is read from the same verified limits dataset as our YouTube character counter, so the two tools can never quietly disagree. The card’s thumbnail ratio is presentational; the real, verified pixel dimensions and safe zones live in our YouTube thumbnail size guide, linked below.

The title is what this card tests, but a video has three text fields that each have their own limit and their own visible window. The description holds 5,000 characters, yet only about the first 157 show under the player before “Show more” — that fold is a watch-page concept and doesn’t appear on this list card, so front-load the link, the pitch, and the first keywords. Tags share a 500-character combined budget. Our YouTube character counter checks all three in one place when you’re ready to move past the title.

Then there’s the part no preview solves: shipping the video and its metadata on schedule, alongside the Short, the cross-post, and everything else. SocialKit’s composer shows each platform’s limits while you write — so the title you just sized here is the one that publishes, and the same idea reaches every network without you maintaining five diverging drafts.