YouTube's banner is uploaded huge but only a slim strip is guaranteed visible everywhere. Here's the upload size — and the safe zone your logo and text need to stay inside.
YouTube's banner is one of the trickiest social image sizes because what you upload isn't what everyone sees. TV screens show the full width, desktop shows a shorter strip, and mobile crops it tighter still. Uploading at exactly 2560×1440 and keeping anything important centered is the only way to guarantee it looks right everywhere.
Open Squeezr and drop in your banner design.
Turn on Resize, unlock the aspect-ratio lock, and set width and height to 2560 × 1440.
Choose Fit mode if your design already accounts for the safe area with padding, or Crop if you're resizing a photo to fill the frame.
Before exporting, double-check your logo and any text sit within the centered 1546×423 safe area — that's roughly the middle 60% width and middle 30% height of the canvas.
Export as JPG at 85% quality and upload as your channel banner.
Skip the manual math — open Squeezr with this preset already dialed in.
Open Squeezr preset to 2560×1440 →YouTube's banner has to work across wildly different screen shapes — a widescreen TV, a desktop browser tab, and a narrow phone screen — from a single uploaded image. Rather than showing different crops on different devices unpredictably, YouTube guarantees only the centered 1546×423 pixel region is always visible, and lets the edges get cropped differently depending on the viewer's screen.
The easiest workflow is to design your banner with logo and text centered in a 1546×423 box first, then expand the canvas outward to 2560×1440 with background art filling the extra space. That way, resizing in Squeezr afterward is just a straightforward Fit — nothing important is ever at risk of being cropped off on a phone screen.