YouTube
Video Thumbnail
1280×720
- Width
- 1280 px
- Height
- 720 px
- Aspect
- 16:9
- Format
- JPG/PNG
- Max size
- 2 MB
- Platform
- YouTube
Best practices
- → Export at the exact pixel dimensions to avoid platform recompression.
- → Keep critical text and faces inside the central 80% — outer edges can be cropped.
- → Use sRGB color space; convert from CMYK or Adobe RGB before upload.
- → Stay well under the 2 MB ceiling; smaller files preserve quality after platform encoding.
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