Social Image Sizes in the Social Platform

Created by Genius Platforms Support, Modified on Mon, 20 May at 3:05 PM by Genius Platforms Support

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:

  Twitter-icon.png  Twitter

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 FPS60 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

 

   92757_like_606x606.png  Facebook

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. 

 

   
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  Instagram 

 

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: VBR5Mbps maximum

  • Duration: 60 seconds maximum, 3 seconds minimum

  • Audio codec: AAC48khz 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

       

 

   
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  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


 

   
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  LinkedIn

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

 

   109358_network_512x512.png  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

 

  logo_google_my_business_color_2x_web_64dp.png  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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