diff --git a/tubearchivist/home/src/index.py b/tubearchivist/home/src/index.py
index 8adaecd..ead7921 100644
--- a/tubearchivist/home/src/index.py
+++ b/tubearchivist/home/src/index.py
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ import yt_dlp as youtube_dl
 from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
 from home.src.config import AppConfig
 from home.src.helper import DurationConverter, clean_string, process_url_list
+from home.src.thumbnails import ThumbManager
 
 
 class YoutubeChannel:
@@ -153,6 +154,15 @@ class YoutubeChannel:
 
         return meta_channel_dict
 
+    def get_channel_art(self):
+        """download channel art for new channels"""
+        channel_id = self.channel_id
+        channel_thumb = self.channel_dict["channel_thumb_url"]
+        channel_banner = self.channel_dict["channel_banner_url"]
+        ThumbManager().download_chan(
+            [(channel_id, channel_thumb, channel_banner)]
+        )
+
     def upload_to_es(self):
         """upload channel data to elastic search"""
         url = f"{self.ES_URL}/ta_channel/_doc/{self.channel_id}"
@@ -514,6 +524,7 @@ def index_new_video(youtube_id, missing_vid=False):
     if channel_handler.source == "scraped":
         channel_handler.channel_dict["channel_subscribed"] = False
         channel_handler.upload_to_es()
+        channel_handler.get_channel_art()
     # upload video to es
     vid_handler.upload_to_es()
     # return vid_dict for further processing
diff --git a/tubearchivist/home/src/thumbnails.py b/tubearchivist/home/src/thumbnails.py
index a350e94..b4be8a8 100644
--- a/tubearchivist/home/src/thumbnails.py
+++ b/tubearchivist/home/src/thumbnails.py
@@ -5,9 +5,9 @@ functionality:
 
 import os
 
+import home.src.download as download
 import requests
 from home.src.config import AppConfig
-from home.src.download import ChannelSubscription, PendingList
 from home.src.helper import RedisArchivist, ignore_filelist
 from PIL import Image
 
@@ -50,8 +50,8 @@ class ThumbManager:
     def get_missing_thumbs(self):
         """get a list of all missing thumbnails"""
         all_thumbs = self.get_all_thumbs()
-        all_indexed = PendingList().get_all_indexed()
-        all_in_queue, all_ignored = PendingList().get_all_pending()
+        all_indexed = download.PendingList().get_all_indexed()
+        all_in_queue, all_ignored = download.PendingList().get_all_pending()
 
         missing_thumbs = []
         for video in all_indexed:
@@ -72,12 +72,14 @@ class ThumbManager:
         """get all channel artwork"""
         all_channel_art = os.listdir(self.CHANNEL_DIR)
         cached_channel_ids = {i[0:24] for i in all_channel_art}
-        channels = ChannelSubscription().get_channels(subscribed_only=False)
+        channels = download.ChannelSubscription().get_channels(
+            subscribed_only=False
+        )
 
         missing_channels = []
         for channel in channels:
             channel_id = channel["channel_id"]
-            if not channel_id in cached_channel_ids:
+            if channel_id not in cached_channel_ids:
                 channel_banner = channel["channel_banner_url"]
                 channel_thumb = channel["channel_thumb_url"]
                 missing_channels.append(
@@ -120,7 +122,8 @@ class ThumbManager:
         """download needed artwork for channels"""
         print(f"downloading {len(missing_channels)} channel artwork")
         for channel in missing_channels:
-            channel_id, channel_thumb, channel_banner  = channel
+            print(channel)
+            channel_id, channel_thumb, channel_banner = channel
 
             thumb_path = os.path.join(
                 self.CHANNEL_DIR, channel_id + "_thumb.jpg"
@@ -137,6 +140,14 @@ class ThumbManager:
                 with open(banner_path, "wb") as f:
                     f.write(img_raw)
 
+            mess_dict = {
+                "status": "pending",
+                "level": "info",
+                "title": "Adding to download queue.",
+                "message": "Downloading Channel Art...",
+            }
+            RedisArchivist().set_message("progress:download", mess_dict)
+
     @staticmethod
     def vid_thumb_path(youtube_id):
         """build expected path for video thumbnail from youtube_id"""
diff --git a/tubearchivist/home/tasks.py b/tubearchivist/home/tasks.py
index 7346304..9c6c9e7 100644
--- a/tubearchivist/home/tasks.py
+++ b/tubearchivist/home/tasks.py
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ def extrac_dl(youtube_ids):
     pending_handler = PendingList()
     missing_videos = pending_handler.parse_url_list(youtube_ids)
     all_videos_added = pending_handler.add_to_pending(missing_videos)
-    ThumbManager().download_missing(all_videos_added)
+    ThumbManager().download_vid(all_videos_added)
 
 
 @shared_task