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What a good Nook profile looks like

Couples scroll a grid of other people’s nights out and stop at the ones they can picture themselves in. That decision gets made on the photo, before a word is read. Here is what works, and the things that reliably don’t.

A real one: Pizzarova

The shopfront at dusk with people outside, then the room, the oven, the staff, the pizza coming out. You know what an evening there is like before you have read anything.

Pizzarova cover photo
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Send these

  • People doing the thing. Hands on the clay, the pint going down, the room mid-class.
  • You, if you are the host. Couples book a person as much as a workshop.
  • The room and the food. What it actually feels like to walk in.
  • Landscape for the cover. It gets cropped wide at the top of your page.
  • A handful, not one. Extra photos open in a lightbox couples can swipe through.

Not these

  • Posters and flyers. Every one is a different shape, so they crop badly in a grid built for photographs. They are the most common reason a listing looks worse than the night it is advertising.
  • Text baked into the image. At thumbnail size it is unreadable, and the crop usually eats half of it. Your title and description are already on the page.
  • AI-generated images. Couples spot them instantly, and they make a real place look like it is not one. A slightly wonky real photo beats a perfect fake every time.
  • Stock photography. Same problem: it could be anywhere, so it tells a couple nothing about you.

Haven’t got photos?

We will come and take them. Nook is shooting Bristol venues and hosts so the whole site looks like one place rather than fifty different poster templates. It costs you nothing and you keep the photos. Email hello@nookbristol.co.uk and we will sort a time.

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