YouTube / landscape
Custom video thumbnail
3840 x 2160 pixels, 16:9
Video thumbnails shown on YouTube home, search, subscriptions, and embeds.
Answer
- Pixels
- 3840 x 2160
- Ratio
- 16:9
- Effective date
- unknown
- Audit status
- noindex
Last checked 2026-06-29. Official help currently recommends 3840 x 2160, but the public page does not expose the recommendation's effective date.
Source and safe zone
Keep the main face/title centered; small-screen cards crop visually even when the file remains 16:9.
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