Hey, did you know the actual image size requirements of social media platform(s) you are using? Are you facing tough times re-editing the images just because your image doesn’t fit correctly on your social page/handle?
If you don’t know, do not worry. We have curated all the essential social media platform size below.
So, let begin a brief rundown of the 2019 social media cheat sheet by picking one by one platform.
1. FACEBOOK
Facebook, Inc. is an American online social media and social networking service company based in Menlo Park, California. It was founded by Mark Zuckerberg, along with fellow Harvard College students and roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes.
-Profile photo…( including business profile pic )
· Recommended 180*180 pixels.
· Displayed as 170*170 pixels on desktop, 128*128 on mobile phones, 36*36 on keypad phones.
· Crops round
· Aspect ratio is 1:1
-Page cover photo
· Recommended 1200*675 pixels.
· Minimum size required 400*150 pixels
· Displayed as 820*312 on desktop, 640*360 on smartphones.
· Aspect ratio is 16:9
-Group cover photo
· Recommended 1640*859 pixels.
-Event image
· Recommended 1200*675 pixels.
· Maximum preferred size 1920*1080
· Aspect ratio is 16:9
-Link image
· Recommended 1200*628 pixels.
· Displayed as 810*450 on facebook mobile app.
-Video
· Must be at least 1280*720 pixels.
-Story
· Recommended 1080*1920 pixels.
· Aspect ratio is 9:!6
Up to 2048 x 2048 works for Facebook photo posts.
2.INSTAGRAM
Instagram is a photo and video-sharing social networking service owned by Facebook, Inc. It was created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger and launched in October 2010 exclusively on iOS.
-Profile photo
Recommended 110*110 pixels
Maximum preferred size is 180*180 pixels
Crops round
Aspect ratio is 1:1
-IGTV
The video must be at least one minute long. The maximum length of your video can be:
· 15 minutes while uploading from mobile devices.
· 60 minutes while uploading from the web.
Videos must be in the MP4 file format.
Recommended 1080*1920 pixels.
You can upload a vertical video with a 9:16 aspect ratio or a horizontal video with a 16: 9 ratio.
The video must have a minimum frame rate of 30 FPS (frames per second) and a minimum resolution of 720 pixels.
Videos with a duration of 10 minutes or less have a maximum file size of 650MB. Videos up to 60 minutes have a maximum file size of 3.6GB.
The suggested size for a cover photo is 420px by 654px (or a 1: 1.55 ratio). Right now, you can’t edit your cover photo after uploading it.
Cover photo file format png or jpg.
-Video
Aspect ratio: 1:1 (square) or 1.9:1 (rectangle)
-Post
Recommended 1080*1080 for square post, 1080 x 566 pixels for landscape post, or 1080 x 1320 pixels for portrait post
Aspect ratio is 1:1 for square post, 1.91:1 for landscape post, 4:5 for portrait post
The thumbnails will appear on the page at 161 x 161 pixels.
–Story
Recommended 1080*1920 pixels.
Aspect ratio is 9:16
3.TWITTER
Twitter is a microblogging and social networking service on which users post and interact with messages known as “tweets”. Tweets were originally restricted to 140 characters, but on November 7, 2017, this limit was doubled to 280 for all languages except Chinese, Japanese, and Korean
-Profile photo
Required image size is 400*400 pixels
Displayed as 200*200 pixels
Crops round
Aspect ratio is 1:1
-Header photo
Recommended 1,500 x 500 pixels.
Maximum file size of 5 MB.
Image types include JPG, GIF or PNG.
Aspect ratio is 3:1
-Twitter ad size (image)
200 x 675-pixel, aspect ratio is 16:9 – any height when clicked
-Twitter card image size
1200 x 628 pixel, aspect ratio is 1.91:1
Multi-image tweet sizes
For two images, the images will be side by side, both at 7:8 aspect ratios.
For three images, there will be one 7:8 aspect ratio image on the left, with two 4:7 aspect ratio images running up the right side of the image.
For four images, there will be four 2:1 aspect ratio images in a grid.
4.LINKEDIN
LinkedIn is an American business and employment-oriented service that operates via websites and mobile apps. Founded on December 28, 2002, and launched on May 5, 2003, it is mainly used for professional networking, including employers posting jobs and job seekers posting their CVs
-Personal profile photo
Preferred between 400 x 400 and 20,000 x 20,000 pixels
Aspect ratio is 1:1
-Personal Cover Photo
Recommended 1584 x 396 pixels.
Aspect ratio is 4:1
Image types include JPG, GIF or PNG.
-Link Post Size
Recommended 1200*628 pixels
Aspect ratio is 1.91:1
Minimum image size 600*314 pixels.
-Photo share image size
Recommended 1200*1200 pixels
Aspect ratio is 1:1
Displayed as 1200*1200 pixels, cropped to square on desktop
Displayed as 1200*628 pixels, cropped to horizontal on the mobile app.
-Company logo photo
Recommended 300*300 pixels
Maximum image size 300*300 pixels
Aspect ratio is 1:1
Crops square
File size up to 4mb maximum.
-Company cover photo
Recommended 1536*768 pixels
Minimum image size 1192*220
File size up to 4mb maximum.
5. YOUTUBE
YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California. Three former PayPal employees-Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim—created the service on February 2005. Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion; YouTube now operates as one of Google’s subsidiaries.
-Channel icon
Recommended 800*800 pixels
Aspect ratio is 1:1
-Channel cover photo
Recommended 2560*1440 pixels
Minimum image size 1546*423 pixels
-Thumbnail/Video upload
Recommended 1280*720 pixels
6. GOOGLE MY BUSINESS
Google My Business is an Internet-based service for business owners which is operated by Google. The network launched in June 2014 as a way of giving business owners more control of what shows up in the search results when someone searches a given business name.
-Profile Photo
Recommended 250*250 pixels
Aspect ratio is 1:1
-Cover Photo
Recommended 1080*608 pixels
Minimum image size is 480*270 pixels
Maximum image size is 2120*1192 pixels
-Add Photo
Recommended 720*720 pixels
Photos are in either JPG or PNG format
Image size Between 10 KB and 5 MB.
-Add video
Recommended 720*720 pixels or higher
File size: Up to 100 MB
Duration: Up to 30 seconds long
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