YouTube Banner Resizer
Already set to 2560 x 1440. Drop your artwork in, get a banner YouTube will accept — and do a whole folder at once if you are testing variations.
Recommended banner size
2560 x 1440
16:9 aspect ratio
Already set to 2560 x 1440. Drop your artwork in, get a banner YouTube will accept — and do a whole folder at once if you are testing variations.
Recommended banner size
2560 x 1440
16:9 aspect ratio
A channel banner is the one image on YouTube that gets shown at several different sizes from a single upload, and the only one where a mistake stays invisible until somebody opens your channel on a television. Upload at 2560 x 1440 and the full frame exists when a big screen asks for it. Keep anything that matters near the middle and it survives the crop on a phone. That is really the whole job.
| Recommended size | 2560 x 1440 px |
|---|---|
| Minimum upload size | 2048 x 1152 px |
| Aspect ratio | 16:9 |
| Safe area for text and logos | 1235 x 338 px (at the 2048 x 1152 minimum) |
| Maximum file size | 6 MB |
| Embellishments | No shadows, borders or frames |
Every figure above is from YouTube Help — Manage your channel branding, checked on 9 October 2026.
Search for YouTube banner dimensions and you will find 1546 x 423 quoted everywhere as the safe area, usually with no source. It is not a figure YouTube publishes. What their help page actually says is that the minimum upload is 2048 x 1152, and that at that minimum dimension the safe area for text and logos is 1235 x 338.
Scale 1235 x 338 up to a 2560-wide canvas and you get 1544 x 423. Near enough to 1546 that the difference is a rounding artefact nobody has gone back to check in years, and far too small to matter when you are placing a logo. Use the number if you like. Just know it is derived rather than published, which is worth knowing about any spec you are designing against.
The practical version: keep your text and logo inside roughly the middle 60% of the width and the middle 30% of the height, and you will be inside every version of this figure.
This tool keeps your aspect ratio by default, which means a source that is not 16:9 comes out fitting inside 2560 x 1440 rather than filling it. That is deliberate. The alternative is stretching your artwork to force an exact match, and a subtly distorted banner looks worse than one that came out slightly short.
If your image is a different shape, crop it to 16:9 first and then resize. It is two passes instead of one, and it is the difference between a banner that looks designed and one that looks squashed.
YouTube rejects banners over 6 MB, which is easy to hit with a 2560 x 1440 PNG carrying a photographic background. Resizing alone often will not get you under it, because the pixel count is already at the recommended maximum.
Compressing afterwards usually does, and at banner scale the quality cost is invisible — the image is being displayed behind a profile picture and a row of buttons.
YouTube says only that the image "will be cropped in some views and on certain devices" and should fill the screen on larger ones. It does not publish a per-device table. The figures below are the ones the design community has settled on by measurement — useful for planning, but not official, and worth re-checking if a layout change lands.
| Device | Visible area | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| TV | 2560 x 1440 | The only place the entire image is shown. Everything else is a crop of this. |
| Desktop | 2560 x 423 | A wide horizontal band through the middle. Most of your canvas is not visible here. |
| Tablet | 1855 x 423 | Same height as desktop, narrower. |
| Mobile | 1546 x 423 | The tightest crop, and where most people will see it. Design for this one. |
Drag in up to 50 images at once. Nothing is uploaded anywhere — the resizing happens in your browser, on your machine.
Width and height are already set to 2560 x 1440. Change them if you are working to a different target.
Everything is processed locally and comes back as a single ZIP.
If a file comes out over 6 MB, run it through the compressor before uploading to YouTube.
2560 x 1440 pixels, which is 16:9. That is what YouTube recommends for the best display across devices, and specifically for TV. The minimum it will accept is 2048 x 1152. Uploading larger than 2560 x 1440 gains you nothing — it is the size the full-frame TV view uses.
YouTube publishes one figure: 1235 x 338 pixels, measured at the 2048 x 1152 minimum upload size. Scaled to a 2560-wide banner that works out to about 1544 x 423, which is where the widely-quoted 1546 x 423 comes from. Keep logos and text inside that central band and they will be visible on every device.
Because it is. A single 2560 x 1440 upload is cropped differently on each device, and the phone view is the tightest of them — roughly a 1546 x 423 band through the centre. The full image only appears on a TV. If something important is near an edge, it is not missing, it is just outside the crop.
The banner must be 6 MB or smaller. YouTube also asks that you avoid adding shadows, borders or frames to the artwork, since the interface applies its own treatment on top. A 2560 x 1440 PNG with a photographic background will often exceed 6 MB, in which case compress it before uploading.
Yes, up to 50 at a time. That is the main reason to use a batch tool for something you only upload once — if you are testing several designs, or keeping seasonal versions ready, doing them in one pass takes about as long as doing one.