Manage your channel branding

Change your profile picture in YouTube Studio. Your profile picture is the image shown to viewers on your channel, videos and publicly attributable actions across YouTube.

1. Sign in to YouTube Studio.
2. From the left-hand menu, select Customisation Profile.
3. Click CHANGE and select an illustration or an image from your computer. Change the preset colours and crop of the illustration or the size of your uploaded image, then click DONE.
4. Click PUBLISH. It may take a few minutes for your profile picture to be updated across YouTube.

Crop your photo with assistive technology or keyboard

Crop your photo from a corner

1. Navigate to select the corner of your photo.
2. Use the arrow keys to crop the photo.

Move the entire crop square

1. Navigate to select the entire crop square.
2. Use the arrow keys to change the position of the crop square.

Profile picture guidelines

Your profile picture must follow our Community Guidelines and meet the following criteria:

• JPG, GIF, BMP or PNG file (no animated GIFs)
• Image size should not exceed 15 MB.
• Image that renders at 98 x 98 px.

YouTube Creators

1. Sign in to YouTube Studio .
2. From the left-hand menu, select Customisation Profile.
3. Click CHANGE and select an image. To make changes, select a preview and change the crop, then click DONE.
4. Click PUBLISH.

Official Artist Channels

Your banner image is only used on the computer and mobile devices. To update that banner, follow the YouTube Creator instructions above.

To update the banner that you have on TV and on YouTube Music:

1. Sign in to YouTube Studio.
2. From the left-hand menu, select Profile.
3. Click next to the profile photo and select an image. To make changes to an image,
   • Select Preview and edit the image.
   • Click DONE.
4. Click SAVE at the top right of the page.

Banner image guidelines

Follow these recommendations for your banner to render properly:

• Minimum dimension for upload: 2048 x 1152 px with an aspect ratio of 16:9.
• At the minimum dimension, the safe area for text and logos: 1235 x 338 px.
• Recommended dimension (especially for TV): 2560 x 1440 px.
• Images should accommodate the entire screen for larger devices but will get cropped on certain views and devices.
• Do not include any additional file embellishments (e.g. shadows, borders and frames).
• File size: 6 MB or smaller.

How to resize images

You can use your computer's image editor or an online image resizer to resize the images. For example, you can use Preview on an Apple computer or Microsoft Photos on Windows.

1. Sign in to YouTube Studio.
2. From the left-hand menu, select Customisation Profile.
3. Select your display time:
   • End of video: The video watermark will be shown for the last 15 seconds of the video.
   • Custom start time: The video watermark will begin showing at a time that you choose.
   • Entire video: The video watermark will show throughout the entire video.
4. Click CHANGE and select an image. Change the size of your image, then click DONE.
5. Click PUBLISH.

Video watermark guidelines

Your video watermark must meet the following criteria:

• Minimum 150 x 150 pixels.
• Square image, less than 1 MB in size.

Availability

The channel watermark is available in landscape view on computers and mobile devices (not clickable on mobile). Channel watermarks do not show on custom YouTube chromeless players or Adobe Flash.

Video watermark metrics

You can get metrics in the Subscription source report in YouTube Analytic.