diff --git a/openpype/plugins/publish/integrate_thumbnail.py b/openpype/plugins/publish/integrate_thumbnail.py
index d86cec10ad..e7046ba2ea 100644
--- a/openpype/plugins/publish/integrate_thumbnail.py
+++ b/openpype/plugins/publish/integrate_thumbnail.py
@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+""" Integrate Thumbnails for Openpype use in Loaders.
+
+    This thumbnail is different from 'thumbnail' representation which could
+    be uploaded to Ftrack, or used as any other representation in Loaders to
+    pull into a scene.
+
+    This one is used only as image describing content of published item and
+    shows up only in Loader in right column section.
+"""
+
 import os
 import sys
 import errno
@@ -12,7 +22,7 @@ from openpype.client.operations import OperationsSession, new_thumbnail_doc
 
 
 class IntegrateThumbnails(pyblish.api.InstancePlugin):
-    """Integrate Thumbnails."""
+    """Integrate Thumbnails for Openpype use in Loaders."""
 
     label = "Integrate Thumbnails"
     order = pyblish.api.IntegratorOrder + 0.01
diff --git a/openpype/plugins/publish/preintegrate_thumbnail_representation.py b/openpype/plugins/publish/preintegrate_thumbnail_representation.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f9e23223e6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/openpype/plugins/publish/preintegrate_thumbnail_representation.py
@@ -0,0 +1,72 @@
+""" Marks thumbnail representation for integrate to DB or not.
+
+    Some hosts produce thumbnail representation, most of them do not create
+    them explicitly, but they created during extract phase.
+
+    In some cases it might be useful to override implicit setting for host/task
+
+    This plugin needs to run after extract phase, but before integrate.py as
+    thumbnail is part of review family and integrated there.
+
+    It should be better to control integration of thumbnail in one place than
+    configure it in multiple places on host implementations.
+"""
+import pyblish.api
+
+from openpype.lib.profiles_filtering import filter_profiles
+
+
+class PreIntegrateThumbnails(pyblish.api.InstancePlugin):
+    """Marks thumbnail representation for integrate to DB or not."""
+
+    label = "Override Integrate Thumbnail Representations"
+    order = pyblish.api.IntegratorOrder - 0.1
+    families = ["review"]
+
+    integrate_profiles = {}
+
+    def process(self, instance):
+        repres = instance.data.get("representations")
+        if not repres:
+            return
+
+        thumbnail_repre = None
+        for repre in repres:
+            if repre["name"] == "thumbnail":
+                thumbnail_repre = repre
+                break
+
+        if not thumbnail_repre:
+            return
+
+        family = instance.data["family"]
+        subset_name = instance.data["subset"]
+        host_name = instance.context.data["hostName"]
+
+        anatomy_data = instance.data["anatomyData"]
+        task = anatomy_data.get("task", {})
+
+        found_profile = filter_profiles(
+            self.integrate_profiles,
+            {
+                "hosts": host_name,
+                "task_names": task.get("name"),
+                "task_types": task.get("type"),
+                "families": family,
+                "subsets": subset_name,
+            },
+            logger=self.log
+        )
+
+        if not found_profile:
+            return
+
+        if not found_profile["integrate_thumbnail"]:
+            if "delete" not in thumbnail_repre["tags"]:
+                thumbnail_repre["tags"].append("delete")
+        else:
+            if "delete" in thumbnail_repre["tags"]:
+                thumbnail_repre["tags"].remove("delete")
+
+        self.log.debug(
+            "Thumbnail repre tags {}".format(thumbnail_repre["tags"]))
diff --git a/openpype/settings/defaults/project_settings/global.json b/openpype/settings/defaults/project_settings/global.json
index 115a719995..1b7dc7a41a 100644
--- a/openpype/settings/defaults/project_settings/global.json
+++ b/openpype/settings/defaults/project_settings/global.json
@@ -164,6 +164,10 @@
                 }
             ]
         },
+        "PreIntegrateThumbnails": {
+            "enabled": true,
+            "integrate_profiles": []
+        },
         "IntegrateSubsetGroup": {
             "subset_grouping_profiles": [
                 {
diff --git a/openpype/settings/entities/schemas/projects_schema/schemas/schema_global_publish.json b/openpype/settings/entities/schemas/projects_schema/schemas/schema_global_publish.json
index 297f96aa8c..773dea1229 100644
--- a/openpype/settings/entities/schemas/projects_schema/schemas/schema_global_publish.json
+++ b/openpype/settings/entities/schemas/projects_schema/schemas/schema_global_publish.json
@@ -555,6 +555,73 @@
                 }
             ]
         },
+        {
+            "type": "dict",
+            "collapsible": true,
+            "key": "PreIntegrateThumbnails",
+            "label": "Override Integrate Thumbnail Representations",
+            "is_group": true,
+            "checkbox_key": "enabled",
+            "children": [
+                {
+                    "type": "boolean",
+                    "key": "enabled",
+                    "label": "Enabled"
+                },
+                {
+                    "type": "label",
+                    "label": "Explicitly set if Thumbnail representation should be integrated into DB.<br> If no matching profile set, existing state from Host implementation is kept."
+                },
+                {
+                    "type": "list",
+                    "key": "integrate_profiles",
+                    "label": "Integrate profiles",
+                    "use_label_wrap": true,
+                    "object_type": {
+                        "type": "dict",
+                        "children": [
+                            {
+                                "key": "families",
+                                "label": "Families",
+                                "type": "list",
+                                "object_type": "text"
+                            },
+                            {
+                                "type": "hosts-enum",
+                                "key": "hosts",
+                                "label": "Hosts",
+                                "multiselection": true
+                            },
+                            {
+                                "key": "task_types",
+                                "label": "Task types",
+                                "type": "task-types-enum"
+                            },
+                            {
+                                "key": "task_names",
+                                "label": "Task names",
+                                "type": "list",
+                                "object_type": "text"
+                            },
+                            {
+                                "key": "subsets",
+                                "label": "Subset names",
+                                "type": "list",
+                                "object_type": "text"
+                            },
+                            {
+                                "type": "separator"
+                            },
+                            {
+                                "type": "boolean",
+                                "key": "integrate_thumbnail",
+                                "label": "Integrate thumbnail"
+                            }
+                        ]
+                    }
+                }
+            ]
+        },
         {
             "type": "dict",
             "collapsible": true,