Social Media Image Sizes – A Guide For Every Social Media Platform

To prevent any compression or distortion, upload a .JPG or .PNG file (experiment to see what works best) less than 100 KB. Don’t drag to reposition after you’ve uploaded your cover photo.

Images narrower than 1920 pixels will be enlarged to fit. Images wider than 1920 pixels will be cropped on both sides. Images taller than 1080 pixels will be cropped from top and bottom.

For panorama or 360 photos, Facebook says it should be 30,000 pixels in any dimension, and less than 135,000,000 pixels in total size with an aspect ratio of 2:1.

Facebook recommends that you upload the highest resolution image available in either .JPG or .PNG format that is cropped to a supported aspect ratio.

Also remember that images that consist of more than 20% text may experience reduced delivery as per Facebook’s text in images rules.

As long as your image is between 320 and 1080 pixels wide, it will be kept at its original resolution if the aspect ratio of the picture is between 1.91:1 and 4:5 (a height between 566 and 1350 pixels with a width of 1080 pixels). Otherwise, it will be cropped to match the accepted ratio.

Instagram stories are highly dependent on the device that the story is being displayed on (each story is tailored to the resolution of your device) so it’s hard to suggest an exact image size. For best results, upload an image that is 1080 x 1920 pixels.

The recommended upload size for Instagram thumbnails would be at least 1080 pixels wide. The display size is 161 x 161 pixels. Instagram stores versions of these thumbnails that are 1080 x 1080. To future-proof your Instagram, upload images as large as possible.

The exact dimensions of stories are highly dependent on the device they’re displayed on. Instagram recommends leaving roughly 250 pixels of the top and bottom of the image free from text and logos to prevent the photo from being covered.

Instagram also has Shopping ads where companies can tag their products directly in their posts to seamlessly promote products and provide an easy way for Instagram users to begin shopping for them immediately.

Instagram Shopping offers an immersive platform for people to explore the best of your products or services. You can share featured products through your organic posts and stories with Instagram Shopping or show your products in Instagram’s Search & Discover.

In-stream images from Twitter are images that can be added to any tweet and appear on followers’ Twitter feeds.

Twitter in-stream images no longer count against a tweet’s character count and are commonly used to complement news stories, posts, and event updates by allowing up to 4 images per tweet.

Twitter cards were built back when Twitter allowed only 140 characters to be tweeted at a time. The cards were a vital way to go beyond the restrictive character limits back then.

The summary card can be used for a wide variety of web content, from blog posts and news articles to restaurants and products. It is intended to give a preview of the material to the reader before clicking on your website.

Advertising on Twitter will help you get your message across to people who are most likely to be interested in your products and your brand.

Promoted tweets are simply tweets which an advertiser pays to show on Twitter to people who are not already following them. They can be retweeted, liked, and so on just like normal tweets. They just look like regular tweets, except they have a label which says “Promoted.”

LinkedIn can handle large profile photo files (anything up to 8 MB) so upload files as large as possible for future-proofing.

Cover images are cropped differently on mobile and desktop. Remember to to view your profile on both display styles before finalizing.

LinkedIn Company Pages provide your company with a unique way to stand out from the noise. Company Pages were created to provide a home base for your company and meet your network audience. If you have not yet created a LinkedIn Page for your company, you’re missing out on new connections, fans, employees, and customers.

When uploading images onto your LinkedIn company page, they slightly differ from images on your personal page.

Make sure to use .PNG or. JPG images and an aspect ratio of 1.91:1 (1200 x 627 pixel images are ideal) when uploading image updates to your company page.

If one is available, an auto-generated thumbnail image will appear in the preview when you paste a URL into an update, along with the title of the article or website. However, by clicking the Image icon below the text box and choosing a photo from your device, you can customize it.

The image should use a 1.91:1 ratio (1200 x 627 pixels) and have a width of more than 200 pixels.

If the image width is less than 200px, it will appear on the left side of the post as a thumbnail.

Ads on LinkedIn can help your business reach a strong professional audience.

A recent revision of LinkedIn’s advertising platform, Campaign Manager, has added a few new tools to the LinkedIn toolbox for marketers. The company made the switch to objective-based ads, in addition to sharper targeting choices. This means that advertisers can now run campaigns around clearly defined objectives such as brand awareness, lead generation, or interaction.

YouTube lets you select different profile boundaries for your profile image and the scale is always the same. Make sure your picture is centered for best results.

To meet HD requirements, YouTube allows videos to be 1280 x 720 pixels. This is strongly recommended to ensure that your video has good image quality and attracts viewers as well.