The best way to ensure that your images look professional is to follow the recommended sizes for YouTube images. By doing so you’ll avoid frequent errors such as stretched, pixelated and blurred photos and in return will give your channel a clean and attractive appearance.
The recommended image sizes for YouTube are:
- Profile -
● Youtube Profile Picture: 400x400 pixels.
- Thumbnails -
● Video thumbnails: 1280x720 pixels.
- Covers -
● YouTube Channel Art Cover: 2580x423 pixels.
-Ads-
● Leaderboard: 728x90 pixels.
● Rectangle: 180x150 pixels.
● YouTube Display Ad 1: 300x60 pixels.
● YouTube Display Ad 2: 300x250 pixels.
● YouTube Overlay Ad: 480x70 pixels.