How to Add Social Media Links to SendGrid Email Designs: 1-Min Guide

How to Add Social Media Links to SendGrid Email Designs

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June 5, 2026

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Use this interactive demo to learn how to insert social media icons into your SendGrid email designs.

Quick summary

Adding social media links to a SendGrid email design takes just a few steps inside the Design Editor: drag in the Social module, enter your profile URLs, and save. This lets you connect email recipients directly to your Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, X, Pinterest, and TikTok pages without any coding.

Steps

Inside SendGrid's Design Editor, go to the left-side panel and click the 'Build' tab.
Select the 'Social' module and drag it into the email preview area, placing it in your desired position.
Open the Social Icon URLs section and enter your social media links into the respective input fields for Facebook, Instagram, X, Pinterest, LinkedIn, and TikTok.
Click 'Save' in the top menu bar to apply the changes to your email design.

📌 Why this matters

Adding social media links to transactional and marketing emails is a proven way to grow your audience across channels and increase brand touchpoints after every send. SendGrid's built-in Social module inside the Design Editor makes it easy to embed clickable social icons for Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, X, Pinterest, and TikTok without writing any code. For email marketers and developers using SendGrid, this feature ensures consistent branding and drives cross-channel engagement directly from your email campaigns. Getting social links into your email design takes under a minute, making it one of the fastest wins available inside the SendGrid platform.

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