Media Guidelines
Facebook Pages
Image and video media requirements for Facebook
Images
- Max image size: 10 MB
Supported formats: JPEG, BMP, PNG, Animated GIF, and TIFF.
- Maximum height: 2048 px.
- Maximum width: 2048 px.
- Recommended upload size of 1,200 x 630 px.
- Appears in feed at a max width of 470 px and will scale to a max of 1:1.
- Appears on page at a max width of 504 px and will scale to a max of 1:1.
Video
- Max video size: 2 GB. Please contact us about Enterprise plans for larger files.
- Supported formats: MP4, MOV, and AVI.
- Duration max: 4 hours.
- Recommended video dimensions is 1280 x 720 px for landscape and portrait.
- Landscape aspect ratio is 16:9.
- Portrait aspect ratio is 9:16.
- Video max frames 30fps.
Video Thumbnail
- Supported formats: BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF
- Max image size: 10 MB
Dimensions: There are no image dimension requirements, but it should share the same aspect ratio as your video.
Reels
- Max video size: 1 GB.
- Supported formats: MP4, MOV, and AVI.
- Duration: 3 seconds minimum and 90 seconds maximum.
- Aspect ratio: 9:16.
- Frame rate: 24 to 60 frames per second.
- Video settings:
- Chroma subsampling 4:2:0
- Closed GOP (2-5 seconds)
- Compression: H.264, H.265 (VP9, AV1 are also supported)
- Fixed frame rate
- Progressive scan
- Audio settings:
- Audio bitrate: 128kbs+
- Channels: Stereo
- Codec: AAC Low Complexity
- Sample rate: 48kHz
Reels Thumbnail
- Supported formats: JPEG or PNG
- Max image size: 10MB
Dimensions: There are no image dimension requirements, but it should share the same aspect ratio as your video.
Stories
Photos
- Format: JPEG, BMP, PNG, GIF, TIFF
- Max image size: 4MB
- For .png files, we recommend not exceeding 1MB or the image may appear pixelated.
Videos
- Max video size: 1 GB.
- Format: MP4, MOV, and AVI.
- Aspect ratio: 9:16
- Resolution: 1080 x 1920 pixels (recommended). Minimum is 540 x 960 pixels.
- Frame rate: 24 to 60 frames per second.
Duration: 3 seconds minimum and 90 seconds maximum. A reel published as a story on a Facebook Page cannot exceed 60 seconds.
- Video settings:
- Chroma subsampling 4:2:0
- Closed GOP (2-5 seconds)
- Compression: H.264, H.265 (VP9, AV1 are also supported)
- Fixed frame rate
- Progressive scan
- Audio settings:
- Audio bitrate: 128kbs+
- Channels: Stereo
- Codec: AAC Low Complexity
- Sample rate: 48kHz