Wrong image shown to represent brand in mobile search

[tdastru]

The image I’ve attached is a screenshot of what shows up on mobile when I do a branded search for one of my clients.

We have a Youtube video on the homepage featuring Harry Connick Jr. The video is directly under the hero image on the homepage, and the thumbnail for the video is the image that Google is pulling into the SERP.

I don’t want this image in the SERPs. I’ve marked up the logo with schema but that doesn’t seem to be helping. Is there any other schema markup I can use to remedy this? What else I can do to influence which image Google pulls?

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[martinxm]

Hi Barret. I think you can try to change the video thumbnail on YouTube. It would be necessary to access as administrator the account where the video is. Then you would have to do the following steps:

1. Sign in to YouTube.
2. Go to Creator Studio > Video Manager.
3. Next to the video, click Edit.
4. On the left of the preview screen, choose a thumbnail.
5. Click Save changes.

You can try doing another search and see if that forces Google to use the thumbnail.