diff --git a/openpype/plugins/publish/extract_thumbnail_from_source.py b/openpype/plugins/publish/extract_thumbnail_from_source.py
index 401a5d615da..33cbf6d9bf5 100644
--- a/openpype/plugins/publish/extract_thumbnail_from_source.py
+++ b/openpype/plugins/publish/extract_thumbnail_from_source.py
@@ -65,7 +65,8 @@ def process(self, instance):
             "files": dst_filename,
             "stagingDir": dst_staging,
             "thumbnail": True,
-            "tags": ["thumbnail"]
+            "tags": ["thumbnail"],
+            "outputName": "thumbnail",
         }
 
         # adding representation