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NBCU Newsletters

This page provides creative guidelines for NBCU newsletters.

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News, lifestyle, movies

Image format

JPEG, GIF, PNG, or animated GIF

  • Creatives with a white or gray background must have an image border of at least 1px thick

Delivery format

Creative must be attached in email

Supported sizes

There is generally a single / 2 ad call made on each newsletter that can be filled with any of these sizes:

  • 970×250

  • 970×550

  • 300×250

(info) All sizes appear on mobile (sized down to the width of the screen)

Max file size

250kb

GIF animation length

30 seconds max; 5 fps; 3 loops

Golf channel

Dedicated push email: Option 1

Dedicated push email: Option 2

Newsletter

Format: HTML

Assets due: 5 business days before deployment date

Assets required:

  • Max width – 640px (600px is most common)

  • Max height – flexible (600px is most common)

  • Simple, table-based format; no CSS positioning

  • Use valid links; '#' placeholders not accepted

  • Specify if all links need to be updated or just specific ones

  • Test the HTML in multiple platforms (e.g., Outlook, Gmail, Yahoo)

  • External CSS not supported

  • JavaScript not supported

  • Subject line copy under 80 characters including spaces

  • Preheader copy

  • Impression tag and click tag (optional)

Format: Single image

Assets due: 3 business days before deployment date

Assets required:

  • Max width – 650px (550px is most common)

  • Max height – flexible (550px is most common)

  • Max weight – 100kb

  • JPEG, PNG, or GIF

  • Click-thru URL

  • Subject line copy under 80 characters including spaces

  • Preheader copy

  • Impression tag and click tag (optional)

Format: Single image

Assets due: 3 business days before deployment date

Assets required:

  • 300×600

  • JPEG, PNG, or GIF

  • Max weight – 40kb

  • Click-thru URL

  • Impression tag and click tag (optional)

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