Our Social Platform allows you to automatically crop images to the correct size for each Social Media sites, however, it is useful to know the exact and up-to-date size restrictions for each popular platform. We've outlined this below:
Images
- Up to 5 MB
- Gif images are also supported (up to 1280x1080 pixels)
- Post photo/in-stream photo: 8192 x 8192 pixels or smaller
Videos
Recommended:
- Recommended Video Codec: H264 High Profile
- Recommended Frame Rates: 30 FPS, 60 FPS
- Recommended Video Resolution: 1280x720 (landscape), 720x1280(portrait), 720x720 (square)
- Recommended Minimum Video Bitrate: 5,000 kbps
- Recommended Minimum Audio Bitrate: 128 kbps
- Recommended Audio Codec: AAC LC
- Recommended Aspect Ratio: 16:9 (landscape or portrait), 1:1 (square)
Advanced:
- Frame rate must be 60 FPS or less
- Dimensions must be between 32x32 and 1280x1024
- File size must not exceed 512 mb
- Duration must be between 0.5 seconds and 140 seconds
- Aspect ratio must be between 1:3 and 3:1
- Must have 1:1 pixel aspect ratio
- Only YUV 4:2:0 pixel format is supported
- Audio must be AAC with Low Complexity profile. High-Efficiency AAC is not supported
- Audio must be mono or stereo, not 5.1 or greater
- Must not have open GOP
- Must use progressive scan
Images
- Up to 4 MB
- Gif images are not supported
- Profile picture: 180 x 180 pixels
- Cover photo: 851 x 315 pixels (maximum file size of 100 KB)
- Desktop newsfeed: 1200 x 630 pixels
Videos
- No larger than 250 MB
- Up to 59 minutes in length
- Adding a YouTube link will post as a link preview which when clicked on, will open YouTube in a new tab to play the video.
Images
- Up to 8 MB
- Formats: JPEG, PNG, BMP, and non-animated GIFs
- Square - 1:1 aspect ratio
- Portrait images - 4:5 aspect ratio
- Landscape images - Max 1.91:1
- Aspect ratio: Must be within a 4:5 to 1.91:1 range
- Minimum resolution: 150x150 (lower resolutions will be scaled up to the minimum)
- Maximum resolution: 1920x1080 (higher resolutions will be scaled down to the maximum)
Videos
Format: MOV or MP4
Frame rate: 23-60 FPS.
File size: 100 Mb maximum
Bitrate: VBR, 5Mbps maximum
Duration: 60 seconds maximum, 3 seconds minimum
Audio codec: AAC, 48khz sample rate maximum, 1 or 2 channels (mono or stereo).
- Video codec:
- HEVC
- H264
- Progressive Scan
- Closed GOP
- 4:2:0 chroma subsampling
- Picture size:
Maximum columns (horizontal pixels): 1920
Minimum aspect ratio [cols / rows]: 4 / 5
- Maximum aspect ratio [cols / rows]: 16 / 9
YouTube
Videos
- No longer than 59 minutes
- Channel icon: 800 x 800 pixels (this will get rendered to 98 x 98 pixels)
- Video thumbnail: 1280 x 760 pixels
- Channel art: 2560 x 1440 pixels
Images
- Up to 900 width X 470 height pixels
- Up to 10 MB
- Gif images are not supported
- Images for posts: 7600 x 7600 pixels (however, very large images will be resized to standard sizes)
Videos
- Native Videos available to Company Pages only (Playing video inside of LinkedIn.com)
- Up to 200MB for Company Pages
- Posting videos to LinkedIn Profiles will display as a link (Which when clicked on will open in a new tab outside of LinkedIn.com)
- YouTube links will display normally and will auto-play
Tumblr
Images
- Up to 5 MB
- Gif images are also supported
Videos
- Any video files uploaded will appear as an image which when clicked on, will open in a new page to play the video
Google My Business
Images
- Only images with a 16:9 aspect ratio are allowed
- Minimum size - 480 x 270
- Maximum size - 2120 x 1192
- Only uploading cover photos are supported
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