Each row links to the platform's own documentation. Values are quoted as published — not rounded, not paraphrased. Platforms change specs; the linked page always wins over this table.
| Field | Requirement | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Aspect ratio (Sponsored Brands Video) | 16:9 (square pixel) only | advertising.amazon.com |
| Resolution (Sponsored Brands Video) | 1280x720, 1920x1080, or 3840x2160px | advertising.amazon.com |
| Duration (Sponsored Brands Video) | Between 6 and 45 seconds (20 secs or less highly recommended) | advertising.amazon.com |
| Max file size (Sponsored Brands Video) | 500MB or less | advertising.amazon.com |
| Container (Sponsored Brands Video) | .MP4 or .MOV | advertising.amazon.com |
| Video codec (Sponsored Brands Video) | H.264 or H.265 | advertising.amazon.com |
| Video profile (Sponsored Brands Video) | Main or Baseline | advertising.amazon.com |
| Frame rate (Sponsored Brands Video) | 23.976, 23.98, 24, 25, 29.97, 29.98, or 30fps | advertising.amazon.com |
| Video bit rate (Sponsored Brands Video) | Minimum 1 Mbps (4 Mbps or higher recommended) | advertising.amazon.com |
| Scan type (Sponsored Brands Video) | Progressive | advertising.amazon.com |
| Audio codec / format / bitrate / sample rate (Sponsored Brands Video) | Codec: PCM, AAC, or MP3; Format: Stereo or mono; Bit rate: Minimum 96 kbps; Sample rate: Minimum 44.1khz | advertising.amazon.com |
| Safe-zone / gotcha (Sponsored Brands Video) | Avoid using videos with horizontal or vertical black, color, or blurred bars. Avoid placing text and other important information in the lower right corner. | advertising.amazon.com |
| Aspect ratio (Stores video tile — full width and medium) | Min. to max. aspect ratio: 6:4 to 8:3 | advertising.amazon.com |
| Aspect ratio (Stores video tile — large) | Min. to max. aspect ratio: 3:4 to 4:3 | advertising.amazon.com |
| Min video resolution (Stores video tile — full width) | Min. video resolution: 1,280 × 640 px | advertising.amazon.com |
| Min video resolution (Stores video tile — large) | Min. video resolution: 640 × 640 px | advertising.amazon.com |
| Min video resolution (Stores video tile — medium) | Min. video resolution: 450 × 320 px | advertising.amazon.com |
| Cover image size (Stores video tile — full width) | Min. cover image size: 3,000 × 1,500 px | advertising.amazon.com |
| Cover image size (Stores video tile — large) | Min. cover image size: 1,500 × 1,500 px | advertising.amazon.com |
| Cover image size (Stores video tile — medium) | Min. cover image size: 1,500 × 750 px | advertising.amazon.com |
| Container / codec (Stores video tile, all sizes) | MP4 file format. H.264 video codec. | advertising.amazon.com |
| Duration (Stores background video tile) | Min. video length: 2 to 20 seconds | advertising.amazon.com |
| Max height (Stores background video tile — full width) | Max. height: 1,500 px | advertising.amazon.com |
| A+ content — max modules per content document (sellers) | Content documents for selling partners can contain up to seven modules | developer-docs.amazon.com |
| A+ content — max modules per content document (vendors) | content documents for vendors can contain up to five content modules | developer-docs.amazon.com |
| A+ content — content document name length | Name: minLength 1, maxLength 100 characters | developer-docs.amazon.com |
| A+ content — video module availability (standard A+) | The published standard module list enumerates 15 module types (StandardCompanyLogoModule, StandardImageTextOverlayModule, StandardHeaderImageTextModule, StandardMultipleImageTextModule, StandardSingleSideImageModule, StandardImageSidebarModule, StandardSingleImageHighlightsModule, StandardSingleImageSpecsDetailModule, StandardThreeImageTextModule, StandardFourImageTextModule, StandardComparisonTableModule, StandardFourImageTextQuadrantModule, StandardTextModule, StandardProductDescriptionModule, StandardTechSpecsModule). No video module is listed. | developer-docs.amazon.com |
| A+ content — minimum image sizes by module | Company Logo: Minimum image size: 600 x 180 pixels; Image Text Overlay: 970 x 300 pixels; Header Image Text: 970 x 600 pixels; Multiple Image Text: 300 x 300 pixels; Comparison Table: 150 x 300 pixels; Four Image Text Quadrant: 135 x 135 pixels | developer-docs.amazon.com |
| Aspect ratio (Amazon DSP online video ads) | 16:9 and 9:16 (Note: Today, 9:16 is available on Twitch and Amazon Publisher Direct only) | advertising.amazon.com |
| Resolution (Amazon DSP online video ads) | Horizontal first-party 1920x1080, horizontal third-party 640x360; Vertical first-party 1080x1920, vertical third-party 360x640 | advertising.amazon.com |
| Duration (Amazon DSP online video ads) | Minimum duration 6s; Maximum duration 120s. Recommended lengths exactly 6s, 15s, 20s, 30s, or 60s | advertising.amazon.com |
| Max file size + containers (Amazon DSP online video ads) | File size: 500MB (site served only). Containers: MP4, MPG, MPEG, M2P, M2T, M2TS, PS, TS. Codec: H.264, MPEG-2, or MPEG-4 | advertising.amazon.com |
| Frame rate (Amazon DSP online video ads) | 23.976 (recommended), 24, 25, or 29.97; frame rate mode Constant | advertising.amazon.com |
| Duration (Amazon custom-media video ads) | Desktop & Mobile: up to 3 minutes (15 seconds or less highly recommended). Fire tablet: Up to 15 seconds | advertising.amazon.com |
| Resolution / file size / format / frame rate (Amazon custom-media video ads) | 1920 x 1080 px (16:9) recommended; less than 500 MB; MP4, .M4V, .MOV, .MPEG, .AVI, or .DV uncompressed; Video: H.264, MPEG-2, or MPEG-4, Audio: MP3 or AAC; At least 15 FPS; recommended bit rate 2 MBps; audio 128 kbps / 44 khz | advertising.amazon.com |
| Poster / cover image (Amazon custom-media video ads, Fire Tablet) | Aspect ratio should match your video file precisely; Less than 100 KB; .JPG or .PNG format | advertising.amazon.com |
| Black-bar rule (Amazon custom-media video ads) | Videos should not have black bars on any side of the video content | advertising.amazon.com |
| Aspect ratio / resolution / file size (Streaming TV & Prime Video ads) | Aspect ratio 16:9; Minimum frame size 1920x1080; Maximum file size 500MB; site serving requires an MP4 video file | advertising.amazon.com |
| Duration (Streaming TV & Prime Video ads) | Prime Video US: 15, 30, 45, 60; 3P STV Apps US: 06s, 10s, 15s, 20s, 30s, 45s, 60s, 75s and 90s (varies by region/platform) | advertising.amazon.com |
| Seller listing main-image video — duration window | NOT VERIFIED. The Seller Central help article stating this is behind Amazon sign-in; no first-party public page states it. Not filled in from secondary sources.⚠ could not confirm on the official page | sellercentral.amazon.com |
| Seller listing / product video — resolution, aspect ratio, max file size, container, codec | NOT VERIFIED. Seller Central help hub is login-gated; the public Amazon Ads spec pages do not cover the product-detail-page listing video uploader.⚠ could not confirm on the official page | sellercentral.amazon.com |
| Seller listing video — thumbnail / cover image requirements | NOT VERIFIED. Login-gated. (Only the Stores video tile cover image and the custom-media Fire Tablet poster image are publicly documented — both listed above and both are different surfaces.)⚠ could not confirm on the official page | sellercentral.amazon.com |
| Premium A+ (A+ Brand Story / Premium A+) video module specs | NOT VERIFIED. Premium A+ video modules are authored in Seller Central / Vendor Central UI, which is login-gated. The public SP-API A+ module list contains no video module, so no first-party public page states Premium A+ video duration, resolution, or file size.⚠ could not confirm on the official page | sellercentral.amazon.com |
SCOPE CAVEAT — the two surfaces you named most specifically are the two I could NOT verify. Everything in the table marked "verified" was read directly off a public first-party Amazon page; the four "unverified" rows are deliberately left as gaps. WHAT WOULD NOT FETCH: 1. sellercentral.amazon.com/help/hub/* — hard login wall. Every request 302s to na.account.amazon.com/ap/sso (Amazon OpenID sign-in). This is where the seller listing video / main-image video requirements and the A+ authoring guidelines actually live. I attempted a specific help-article ID and got the sign-in redirect; I have not cited that ID because I could not confirm it is the current video article, so the unverified rows cite the login-gated help hub root instead. 2. sell.amazon.com/tools/a-plus-content, /learn/a-plus-content, /tools/product-videos — all 404. These slugs do not exist. 3. advertising.amazon.com/en-us/resources/ad-policy/creative-acceptance — returned only Amazon branding and a tracking pixel, no readable policy body (likely JS-rendered). No video rules extracted. 4. brandservices.amazon.com/aplus — 301s to sell.amazon.com/brand-registry (marketing page, no specs). A+ CONTENT — THE USEFUL FINDING: the module-count limit is asymmetric and this is the rule that trips people up. Per Amazon's SP-API docs, "Content documents for selling partners can contain up to seven modules; content documents for vendors can contain up to five content modules." Same A+ system, different cap depending on whether you are a seller or a vendor. A+ AND VIDEO: Amazon's public A+ Content API module enumeration lists 15 standard module types and none of them is a video module. So standard A+ (the kind you build via API, and the kind most sellers have) has no video at all — video in A+ only exists in Premium A+, which is authored in the login-gated UI. If someone hands you "A+ video specs" from a blog, that is Premium A+ and I could not confirm any of its numbers first-party. URL / REDIRECT NOTE: developer-docs.amazon.com/... 301s to developer-docs.amazon/... (Amazon owns the .amazon TLD). I fetched the .amazon form; I cite the .amazon.com form because that is the documented, browser-resolvable address. Content is identical. LOCALE NOTE: advertising.amazon.com serves by geo. My first fetch of the Sponsored Brands Video spec page returned Spanish. I re-fetched the /en-us/ path and the numbers were identical across both locales — no discrepancy, but always use the /en-us/ path for verbatim English quoting. NO CONTRADICTIONS FOUND between the pages I did read, but note they are genuinely different surfaces and their numbers differ legitimately — do not merge them. Four different max durations coexist: Sponsored Brands Video 6-45s, DSP online video 6-120s, custom-media video up to 3 minutes (15s on Fire tablet), Stores background video 2-20s. Likewise file size is 500MB on three surfaces but the containers differ (SB Video accepts only .MP4/.MOV; DSP OLV accepts eight containers; Stores accepts MP4 only). ASPECT RATIOS: the ratiosAccepted list is a union across surfaces and is misleading if applied blindly. 16:9 is the ONLY ratio Sponsored Brands Video accepts. 9:16 is DSP-only and further restricted — "available on Twitch and Amazon Publisher Direct only." The 6:4-to-8:3 and 3:4-to-4:3 entries are Stores video tiles and are expressed by Amazon as ranges, not fixed ratios. CHANGE HISTORY: I could not establish what changed in the last 12 months. Amazon does not publish changelogs or "last updated" dates on these ad-spec pages, and my web-search budget for this session was exhausted before I could check archived versions, so I have no basis for a change claim. Treat all of the above as "current as of the fetch date," not as "unchanged since 2025." RECOMMENDED NEXT STEP for the gaps: the listing-video and Premium A+ numbers require an authenticated Seller Central session. Log in and pull them from Seller Central Help directly, or from the Upload Video tool's own on-page validation text, which states the live limits the uploader actually enforces.
Platforms can change them at any time. Every row here links to the source, so if something looks off, the linked page wins — and tell us. Checked: 2026-07-25.
Aspect ratio and duration are chosen before generating, and templates come preset to common platform ratios. Delivery parameters like codec, container and file size depend on what you do after export; this page lists the requirements so you can check them.
Yes. The template library includes a cross-platform adaptation that recomposes one key visual into 1:1 / 9:16 / 16:9 rather than cropping it.