The Harsh Truth About Podcast Cover Art
Podcast listeners swipe past you long before they ever hear your intro. Freddy Cruz exposes how lazy cover art turns a solid show into background noise no one ever selects and lays out how to clean it up.
He calls out the usual crimes: titles crammed in like a CVS receipt, cringey microphone clipart from 2009, blurry selfies, and designs that only look decent when they’re the size of a movie poster. Instead, he pushes for simple, square art at 3000 by 3000 pixels, under 512KB, built around your title and maybe your name, with zero fluff slogans fighting for space.
Freddy wants you shrinking…
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