Social Media Integration

Social media is now an important aspect of many people lives; they visit their specific social site often to keep in touch with their friends and to see what else is happening in the world of media. That is why when promoting a product, it is vital to have some sort of online presence within social sites. They are also used to upload your different products that you are promoting.

Using Photoshop you can use it to resize to resize the specific requirements of a social sites profile photo. Here the logo for Student Lifehacks is being resized to 800x800 using the crop tool. It is far better to resize the image before uploading it because even though some social sites have built in crop tool, they still maintain a large file size and this could affect devices in variety of ways, smaller and slower network speed devices will take a long time to load, which can be off putting to your audiences.

“Pilot” was added to indicate, the episode of the podcast, it is dark red, to maintain the consistency of the colour scheme of the brand.

This file is being saved as a PNG file to keep the sharp detail of the logo, although this is marginally a larger file size than JPEG, you can change the compression to keep a low file size.

The “album cover” requirements of the podcast, it needs to be at the very least 800x800 and less than 2mb. The logo fulfils both of this criteria. By doing this you are minimizing the data bandwidth that streamers will use, thus resulting in a happy user.

After your file is uploaded, SoundCloud will require you to fill in a basic info form, it is important that great consideration is put into this because this is how, your audiences will find your product for example not adding the correct tags. Setting it for public allows anyone to view it, thus maximizing your potential listeners.

Here is the channel page of Student Lifehacks on SoundCloud.

Twitter page for Student Lifehacks.

Here is a an Image hosting site called IMGUR, it is an excellent site to upload high resolution photo as they support, a variety of formats and large file sizes. It also has strong social media integration, such as Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Google+, Tumblr, Reddit and much more. This allows you to share all of your materials in only one site.

Here is the detailed maximum file size for imgur.

Facebook page for Student Lifehacks.