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title: "Images and media"
category: "Writing"
source: "https://getbloggable.com/help/images-and-media"
updated: 2026-10-22T10:34:36.251Z
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# Images and media

## Getting an image into a post

Four routes, all from the featured-image picker or the editor:

- **Upload** your own — drag and drop, or pick a file.
- **Unsplash** — a built-in library of free photography, attributed automatically as their licence requires.
- **By URL** — paste a link to an image you host elsewhere.
- **AI-generated cover** — Bloggable generates one for the post. This costs credits, unlike the other three.

Autopilot can pick a featured image for you automatically, as an optional stage. See *Autopilot*.

## Video and social embeds

Paste a URL and it becomes an embed: YouTube, Vimeo, Spotify, SoundCloud, CodePen and X are recognised. Everything else becomes a bookmark card. See *The editor*.

## Storage

Uploads count against a per-plan storage quota — **Settings → Billing** shows yours. Unsplash images and images referenced by URL don't consume it, since they aren't hosted by us.

## Alt text

Write it. It's an accessibility requirement first, and both search engines and answer engines read it. An article that scores well on AEO and ships images with no alt text is only half-finished.

## What isn't there yet

There's **no media library browser** — you can upload images, but there's no screen listing everything you've uploaded to reuse or tidy up. Plan to re-upload or use a URL if you need the same image across several posts, or make it part of a reusable element.