We’ve provided the best YouTube banner ideas & examples in a post to help get you started!Īs seen below, Snappa’s own YouTube channel is fairly straightforward and to-the-point it includes our logo (which is the the channel’s icon), the brand’s colors, and the word “TV” within an illustration of a TV.

If your banner isn’t helping to establish brand recognition, it probably isn’t too effective. Your banner can be anything, but it should help users identify your business quickly. Once you’re happy with it, all you have to do is hit “done” and “publish,” and your YT banner will be live on your profile. You can only adjust the crop, however, so that there is TV space above and below it you can’t set the bottom left corner of an image as your desktop crop. Snappa’s templates are designed so that the most important stuff will always be visible, but if you’re using your own image, you’ll likely want to manually adjust the crop. Once you do this, you’ll be shown a preview of how the banner will appear on desktop, TV, and all devices (both tablet and mobile). There you can click “Change,” where you’ll be able to upload your new banner image file. On this page, you can click the heading “Branding,” and then scroll down to the Banner Image section. You can also do this by going to your “ YouTube Studio” by clicking the channel icon on the top right of your screen and selecting “YouTube Studio.”įrom there, you can scroll down and click “Customization.”Īlternatively, if you’re already viewing your channel page, you can access the channel customization page by simply clicking the blue “Customize Channel” button: To add a YouTube banner, navigate to your YT channel. Uploading your YouTube banner just takes a few seconds. And while you can (and should) focus foremost on the visible-from-all-devices spaces in the center of the image, you can add nonessential design elements to the “TV only” or “desktop only” areas. You can swap out stock photos, and add in (or eliminate) both design elements like shapes and graphics, and text. These YouTube banner templates can be changed entirely. We suggest keeping your design within the inner safe zone like this example below, and you’ll never have to worry about your design being chopped off on phones or iPads. This allows you to create designs that will look great on all devices. In the example below, you’ll see that the top and bottom portions of the screen are “TV Only Areas,” while the desktop safe areas are also indicated. When designing your banner within Snappa, the software will automatically show you which areas will be visible on different screens. There are hundreds of templates that you can choose from, all of which can be customized. If you’re ready to create a free YouTube banner in less than 5 minutes! These can be found under the “Headers” section in Snappa’s templates section, and will automatically be sized to the perfect YouTube channel art size.

To make things as simple and painless as possible, you can choose one of Snappa’s customizable, pre-sized YouTube banner templates. Here is a video we made to show you how to make a YouTube banner for your channel! How to Make a YouTube Banner with Snappaĭon’t want to deal with wrestling with your banner to get it to the right size? Snappa can help you there, and our drag-and-drop design software is easy to use even if you have zero graphic design experience. Again, these safe zones have been incorporated directly into Snappa. Check out the template below which demonstrates how your banner will display across the varying devices. While using the 2560px by 1440px size ensures your banner will fit properly on a TV screen, you also need to worry about how your banner will look on desktops and devices. Maximum file size: 6MB (but file sizes can be smaller).Maximum width: 2560 x 423 pixels, meaning that the “safe area” is always visible despite the size of the screen.Minimum safe area for text and logos: 1546 x 423 pixels, with larger images possibly being cropped on certain devices or displays.There are however other sizing requirements to keep in mind. Since it will be displayed differently on all devices, it’s a good idea to follow YouTube’s official size recommendations for the ideal YouTube channel art size.Īccording to YouTube, the best banner size is 2560 pixels wide by x 1440 pixels tall.

While it can be tiring enough to try to get your banner size just right on your desktop, you need to make sure that your banner looks great on multiple types of devices and browsers.

Create a YouTube banner for free! YouTube Banner Guidelines Bonus: We’ve integrated YouTube’s banner dimensions and safe zones into our graphic design tool.

Youtube banner template