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Shorts and TikTok safe zone overlay for gameplay
Shorts, TikTok and Reels safe zone margins for gameplay, with killfeed and HUD risk and an overlay for your own frame. Ad-placement figures only.
The guide layer has no image, so it drops into CapCut, Premiere or OBS as a reference.
Ad-placement guide. Not measured by VodClipsLab. Organic posts can differ.
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This only checks overlap with the selected zones. It does not detect HUD elements.
| Platform | Top | Bottom | Left | Right |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TikTok | 12.5% (240 px) | 34.4% (660 px) | 11.1% (120 px) | 11.1% (120 px) |
Source: Upload-Post safe zone checker, a third-party page. Page checked Sep 23, 2026. Read by us Nov 8, 2026. These are relayed figures, not our measurements.
Not confirmed: Official organic-post safe zones: the source says it found none. Where the TikTok button column ends at the bottom of the frame. The official ad pages named above were not opened by VodClipsLab.
Safe zones are a margin, not a pixel-exact map. Preview the clip in the app before publishing.
Safe zones are the parts of a vertical video that platform interface elements can cover, and for a 1080 x 1920 frame one third-party checker’s figures, which it says come from platform ad guidance, put roughly the top 12 to 15 percent and bottom 34 to 35 percent at risk. That matters for gameplay because killfeeds and HUD elements often sit in those bands. This page gives the figures, the gaming risks and an overlay for checking your own frame.
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The figures and where they come from
The numbers come from Upload-Post’s safe zone checker, which we read on 8 November 2026. Upload-Post is a service that publishes video to these platforms, so the page also promotes its own product. The page says it was checked on 23 September 2026, uses pixels on a 1080 x 1920 frame, and derives them from official ad guidance. We did not open the official sources it names.
| Platform | Top | Bottom | Left | Right | Extra zone |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TikTok | 240 px (12.5%) | 660 px (34.4%) | 120 px (11.1%) | 120 px (11.1%) | 300 px on the right from 840 px down (action buttons) |
| Instagram Reels | 269 px (14%) | 672 px (35%) | 65 px (6%) | 65 px (6%) | None listed |
| YouTube Shorts | 288 px (15%) | 672 px (35%) | 48 px (4.4%) | 192 px (17.8%) | None listed |
Per the page, TikTok’s figures come from a TikTok Ads Manager template for In-Feed ads, Instagram’s from Meta’s ads guide, and YouTube’s from Google Ads Help for vertical video ads.
These are ad figures, so treat them as a guide
These are ad-placement margins relayed by a third party, and organic posts can differ. The Upload-Post page says it found no official figures for organic posts, and calls safe zones “a margin, not a pixel-exact map”. It also notes caveats we repeat:
- TikTok says a longer caption covers more of the bottom, and other ad formats use other templates.
- Instagram says Reels ads with a disclaimer should keep the bottom 40 percent (768 px) clear, and that on screens taller than 9:16 Meta may zoom the video and trim the edges.
- Google says button positions shift with ad format, campaign type and screen.
Before you publish, preview your clip in the app and keep important elements well inside the margins.
The gaming risk: killfeed and HUD
Gameplay HUDs were designed for a 16:9 screen, not for the margins above, so important elements may fall under platform interface. This section is reasoning, not a measurement.
- Killfeed: in many shooters it sits in a top corner. On a 9:16 frame, the top band and the right margin together can cover it.
- Minimap and ammo: these usually sit at the bottom or bottom corners, inside the largest margin (about 35 percent).
- Captions: auto-captions placed low land in the bottom band, where platform text and buttons sit, and may collide with the HUD.
- Facecam: a facecam in a corner can sit under TikTok’s action buttons, 300 px wide from 840 px down.
- Cropped gameplay: cropping 16:9 footage to 9:16 removes the sides, so side HUD elements may be lost, not just covered.
Your game’s layout varies, so check it. To check your own clips, see do captions cover the killfeed?. For layouts, see facecam and gameplay vertical layout; to check captions, see AI captions for gaming shorts.
For related reading, see the tools hub, the workflow for turning Twitch clips into TikTok and Shorts and the AI clipper picker.