Do you need to know more about
what are the recommended image and video sizes for social media?

Do you need a Social Media Image Sizes Cheat Sheet?
You present yourself best on social media if you get the image size tailored to the site.  The problem is
all the different social media sites have different image size requirements.
Below you can find various webposts and helpful cheat sheets
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TIP: Look carefully at the dates of the posts about Image sheets to make sure you have the most up to date

Social Media Image Sizes Guides - 2023
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This is a round-up of the guides to the best social media guides online - in 2023
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​2023 Social Media Image Sizes for All Networks [CHEATSHEET] | Hootsuite
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I HIGHLY RECOMMEND you read and bookmark/file Hootsuite's comprehensive 2023 Social Media Image Sizes for All Networks [CHEATSHEET]  by Karin Olafson and Tony Tran - as I will be!  It provides:
  • this quick summary image for different types of format and different platforms 
  • PLUS infographics with much more detail for individual platforms.
  • AND detailed written information and advice and tips for every type of image possible

See my blog post Social Media - Recommended Images Sizes in 2023 | Making A Mark
Published January 4th 2023

Always up-to-date guide to social media image sizes | Sprout Social
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The main advantage of the ​Always Up-to-Date Guide to Social Media Image Sizes by Elizabeth Arens is that it doesn't produce one version per year - but rather updates as time passes.

It has no 'pin up' infographics - but it does provides written and visual guides to dimensions for every social media platform

​Last Updated November 2022
It provides links to written advice and visuals for images sizes for:

Always Up-to-Date Guide to Social Media Video Specs | Sprout Social
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Video can be as important as social media

This post ​Always Up-to-Date Guide to Social Media Video Specs (November 2022) by SproutSocial outlines: 
  • Social Media Video Specs & Ad Sizes Per Network
For the following social networks
It provides details about:
  • Recommended video dimensions for different formats
  • Minimum width in pixels for Landscape and Portrait.
  • Landscape aspect ratio
  • Portrait aspect ratio
  • Mobile renders both video types to aspect ratio
  • Max file size 
  • Recommended video formats
  • Video length max in minutes
  • Video max frames per second

Social Media Image Sizes Guides - 2021
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The Ultimate Social Media Image Size Guide for 2021 | Agency Analytics
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This post The Ultimate Guide to Social Media Image Sizes in 2021 [Infographic] (January 2021) provides you with an always up-to-date cheat sheet of social media image sizes in 2021 for the following social media platforms: See the example for Facebook below - use this link to see a more precise version

The 2021 Image Size Cheat Sheet | makewebsitehub.com

The 2021 Social Media Images Sizes Cheat Sheet can be downloaded as a PDF file from makeawebsitehub.com. 

​It covers these social media platforms:
  • Facebook
  • LinkedIn
  • YouTube
  • Instagram
  • Twitter
  • Pinterest
  • Tumblr
  • Google+
  • Ello
  • WeChat
  • Weibo
  • Snapchat
​Do go to the website and read the helpful notes (below the infographic) about how best to optimize images for different social media sites in terms of::
  • pixel height and width dimensions
  • the best sort of image to use
  • resolution
  • file size
  • embedding
  • where and when an image will be seen​​
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EXAMPLE: This is the page about images sizes for Facebook - providing details about pixel numbers and file sizes
This page last updated 24 January 2023