Updated: January 2021
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Have you ever uploaded a photo on your social media profiles with a size different you wanted? You must pay attention to the size of the images and prepare them correctly before uploading them. Below, you will find a list of recommended measures to avoid these errors, updated for 2021.
Facebook image and video sizes
When uploading photos to Facebook, the platform automatically resize and format them. To make sure they are displayed in the highest possible quality, try these sizes:
Profile and cover images
- Profile picture: 2048 x 2048 px (761 x 761 px minimum recommended)
- Cover photos: 2050 x 780 px (851 x 315 px minimum recommended)
- Facebook page cover: 1958 x 745 px
- Facebook group cover: 1640 x 922 px
- Facebook event page cover: 1000 x 524 px
Images posts
- Square image: 2048 x 2048 px (492 x 492 px minimum recommended)
- Portrait image: 1364 x 2046 px (492 x 738 px minimum recommended)
- Image with link: 1200px by 628 px
- Video: 1080 x 1080 px
- Stories: 1080 x 1920 px
- Facebook Ads: 1200 x 628 px
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Instagram image and video sizes
Images publications
- Square image: 1080 x 1080 px
- Horizontal image: 1080 x 566 px (566 px minimum not to cut off the image)
- Vertical image: 1080 x 1350 px (1350 px minimum not to cut off the image)
- Stories: 1080 x 1920 px
IGTV
- Vertical video: 9:16 aspect ratio
- Horizontal video: 16:9 aspect ratio
The video must have a minimum resolution of 720 px. If it lasts 10 minutes or less, their maximum size should be 650 MB, and those up to 60 minutes, 3.6 GB. Remember also that the file format must be MP4, its cover image must be 420 x 654 px, and that the previews will be of 4:5 centered crop. Finally, keep in mind that the maximum duration of the video, if uploading it from your mobile, will be of only 15 minutes.
Profile image: the aspect ratio of a profile image is 110 x 110 px or 180 x 180 px, regardless of its original quality version. Therefore, its ideal size should be much larger to avoid low pixels. In other words, this should be a perfectly square image with no space.
Instagram ads
- Square image: 1936 × 1936 px (600 × 500 recommended minimum)
- Horizontal image: 1936 × 1936 px (600 × 315 recommended minimum)
- Vertical image: 1936 × 1936 px (600 × 750 recommended minimum)
When creating an ad in the ad creation tool, you can crop the image to ensure that the look of your Instagram ad is what you want.
- Video: 1:1 ratio (square), 1.91:1 (horizontal), 4:5 (vertical), 4GB maximum, 120 seconds.
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Twitter image sizes
- Header image: 1500 x 500 px (also supports other sizes such as 1024 x 280 px)
- Profile image: 400 x 400 px
- Image in a post: 1600 x 900 px (maximum weight of 5MB for photos and 5MB for GIF)
- Twitter cards images (with link): 1200 x 628 px
- Twitter Ad: 1600 x 900 px
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LinkedIn image and video sizes
- Linkedin profile photo: 400 x 400 px
- Cover image: 1584 x 396 px
- Company logo: 300 x 300 px
- Images in publications: 1200 x 1200 px
- Images for sponsored content: 1200 x 627 px
- Video ad: 1920 x 1920 px
- Banner: 1584 x 396 px
- Stories: 1080 x 1920 px
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Pinterest image and video sizes
- Pins and Pinterest video format: 1000 x 1500 px
Although this is the ideal size, Pinterest accepts all kinds of formats for pins.
Youtube image and video sizes
- Profile image: 800 x 800 px
- Youtube cover: 2560 x 1440 px
- Video thumbnail: 1280 x 720 px
- Video ad format: 1920 x 1080 px
- Horizontal advertisement for the screen: 300 x 600 px
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EXTRA: Tiktok image and video sizes
- TikTok Video: 1080 x 1920 px
- Wallpaper: 1080 x 1920 px
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