Tracy Hazzard explains how to upload and adjust YouTube banner images, emphasizing that YouTube crops banners differently across views (large desktop, laptop, mobile). She notes the recommended banner size appears in YouTube's editor (2048 x 1152 pixels), and that only the center region reliably displays across devices, so creators should check and crop via YouTube's preview tools.
2048 by 1152
So YouTube is next. Now, YouTube is big and broad because there's actually multiple views and it does look different. Now this is another thing. If you are looking at this on the computer like I am right now, this is where you want to load it in. Make sure it's right. There's the easiest way to do that, is to use the social channels straight from the platform. However, if you're then viewing it, you do want to double check how it looks on social media, on, on the plat, on your channel. In this case, it's YouTube, so it's your channel. You do want to check it on the platform that is mobile, because it looks different mobile. So here's what it looks like here. If I were going to YouTube, it's actually up here at the top and you see on here, it shows it. It shows it right nice and narrow. So it's going to actually take a slice of that. Luckily, when you load into YouTube, when you load in here and you put it in it, you've got editing images, it'll show you the different views, the banner image views. It'll say you can change it. It won't. Let me show you. It'll change it. It tells you what its pixels are. 2048 by 1152. That's the size we created. But it's going to show you what it looks like different on a huge desktop, on a laptop, on a mobile device. And you can actually already see it, which is kind of nice. So as you load that in, that's going to happen for you and you'll be able to adjust it as well and crop it. And that's why we give you the full maximum. But we've already designed it because we know only that middle part is really going to show.
