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Podcast Artwork Specifications

Your podcast cover art is the square image that listeners see on their listening devices and on most podcast players.


Each podcast can have a couple of types of artwork:


  • Podcast show artwork - the cover art for the podcast itself, the main cover; and
  • Podcast episode artwork - cover art specific to each episode, shown in more and more podcast players on an episode-by-episode basis


Luckily, both pieces of artwork follow the same specification.


Here's the official specification from Apple


Note: With the release of iOS 17 and support for individual episode artwork, Apple Podcasts has changed the requirements for podcast artwork. These specifications are below.


  • A square image
  • 3000 x 3000 pixels in size
  • JPEG or PNG format
  • Max 1MB in file size (JPEGs are smaller in file size)


From experience, don't put anything naughty on the artwork, either. They won't like that. That means:


  • No swearing or explicit language
  • No explicit images
  • No offensive or discriminatory imagery


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Updated on: 29/10/2024

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