Try and have a limited number of words, around seven or so words is a good rule of thumb. This just helps to ensure legibility. This is the show for creative entrepreneurs who have a message to share and want to live a life of freedom. Learn how to grow your network and net worth. Hear from exciting guests and more. My name is Dylan Schmidt, and welcome to Digital Podcaster. There are some podcast cover art best practices, recommendations that I gotta share with you. I can't believe I haven't covered this sooner in the podcast. I'm kind of like thinking back right now. What? How have I not included this before? But you need to know this if you don't know it already. If you have a podcast. Cool. You still need to know because there's some important things in here. If you don't have a podcast yet, you still need to know this. Or if you want a podcast eventually, if you weren't interested in Podcasting at all, I don't know how you landed here, please let me know. Um, but , there's some things your podcast cover art needs to include when I say your cover art, that is, your main show art. This could also apply to your episode art if you create other art for each individual episode. That's a whole different topic for a different day. But let's just look at it through the lens to make things simple of, this is your show art, your main show art that when you set up your podcast and you've got some art, this is what's on there. So, number one, your art needs to reflect the tone, personality, style, and genre of your show. When I just look at your cover art, it should give me a good indication of who this is for. If you are a B2B podcast, if you are strictly a business talking to other businesses, then your podcast cover art should probably be on the more professional side. It should look great on LinkedIn. It should be, you know, more prob, I don't know if corporatey is the right word, but it should be more professional. If you have a comedy podcast that attracts a younger audience, please, you know, make your cover art, a reflect that when it looks like that, again, you don't have to go over the top, make it in your tone, personality, style, and genre. Next is you gotta make the sizing correct. So here's the size. Resolution file type requirements for podcast cover art, it's gotta be or recommended 3000 by 3000 pixels. Have a resolution of 72 dpi, be in a JPEG or PNG file type and have an RGB color space. nothing that you can't do in Canva. I'll just put it that way. Next, your cover art should look great in a variety of sizes and settings. For the most part, people are gonna be looking at your cover art on their phone, so it's gotta look tiny. And that's also why it's important to leave margins at the edges because, if they're looking at it inside of an. The app might crop the corners of your cover art and then it might look a little silly, so just leave a good margin at the edges. And these are just really graphic design best practices anyways around, cover art. And another reason why it needs to look good on a variety of sizes and settings is people also listen to podcasts on their tv. And, you know, your cover art might be bigger there also. Your cover out should clearly communicate the subject of your podcast, kind of like reflecting your show's tone, personality style, and genre. it should communicate whatever the mission of your podcast is, right? For Digital Podcaster, you notice it's me. I have specific, you know, kind of ominous episode cover, uh, cover art that I use. But for the main show art, it's me with a microphone. And just clean, straightforward, right? It doesn't say a whole lot, but I'm kind of the subject of the podcast and I'm talking to other podcasts, so I don't know. I feel good about that. if you had a True Crime podcast and you had this like happy go lucky, uh, look on the cover art, that would be weird unless it wasn't weird for your show. So if the subject of your podcast is true crime maybe it should be included in there somewhere in the cover art. And then the last thing I wanna say and recommend and just for all of us to follow is try and have a limited number of words. Around seven or so words is a good rule of thumb. This just helps to ensure legibility. You want the words to be big. Because again, if people are looking and using their phone to look at your cover. If your words are too tiny, just assume that they won't be able to be read. So using my own podcast cover art for Digital Podcaster. You'll notice Digital podcaster is just in big block letters. That's because it's easy to read. It's 2023 and there are a million different podcast strategies you could be implementing. 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That's kind of small under Digital Podcaster, I'm okay with that. I don't need everybody knowing my name, like to listen to the podcast. The focus I want is on the title of the podcast, which is Digital Podcaster. So that's really it. I always put the title on. And then on my main cover art I have with Dylan Schmidt on the episodes, I have the title and then I have the episode number and I just keep it really simple. That's mine. Just to answer your question, because you're probably asking it in your head. You don't have to make specific episode art for every episode. You can just leave just the same cover art for each episode. You don't have to change it up. It's just one of those things if you wanna do it, you can do it. Awesome. I hope this helps you not only improve uh, your podcast cover art, but use this to grow your podcast because it's one of the first things that people will see. I will catch you in the next episode.