
Thumbnail of one of the videos from the official YouTube channel Next you’ll see examples of a YouTube banner and a YouTube thumbnail. While the placement for the two is different, the main purpose of both YouTube banner and YouTube thumbnail is to attract the attention of the viewers, either to the channel in general or to a specific video. Min image safe area for logos and texts – 1546 x 423 pixels.However, since your banner can also be used for displaying various information, there are other recommendations, such as: The general size recommendation is more or less the same as the channel art size recommendation – 2560 x 1440 pixels. The YouTube banner, on the other hand, is somewhat more complicated.īanner recommendations are there to make sure that you’re getting the most use of your banner, since it is basically your channel’s cover image, and it should be capable of displaying properly from different device types. Channel art and thumbnail are the simplest ones, with the recommendations of 2560 x 1440 pixels for the former, and 1280 x 720 pixels for the latter. YouTube has a number of different purposes for your images, but the main three ones are still the same – channel art, thumbnail, and banner. This usually means that resizing is needed for your images to fit the required parameters of height and width. Similar to a lot of social media platforms, YouTube has its own recommended image sizes for different purposes, be it a thumbnail, banner, channel icon, or something else. However, that’s not to say that any image could be your thumbnail at a moment’s notice.

Those images are your banner, your channel icon, your thumbnail, and so on. A good example of this is YouTube because it shows multiple different images of your channel as soon as you’re visiting it.


It applies to regular visitors, potential customers, actual clients, and so on. Presentation is an essential factor when it comes to social media platforms.
