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How to customize your video thumbnail/cover image

How to set a custom cover image for your social media video.

Written by Carmen Villanueva

StoryChief allows you to publish videos to multiple social media platforms, and some of these platforms allow you to select a cover image which will be visible before the video is played. The following article walks you through selecting a cover image for your video.


Start customizing your video

Step 1. Click the modify thumbnail button on the video:
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Step 2. Select the image you want to use as a cover image, then click Select:
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ℹ️ Support social media platforms:

Social media platform

Custom video thumbnail

Notes

Instagram

βœ…

LinkedIn

βœ…

Facebook

βœ…

X/Twitter

❌

Only Twitter embedded videos (Duration > 140 seconds and dimensions outside of 32x32 and 1280x1024; see help article))

Twitter native videos do not support custom cover images.

TikTok

❌

Pinterest

❌

Does not support videos

Google My business

❌

Does not support videos

Slack

❌

πŸŽ‰ Congratulations, your video will now show the selected image as a cover image on the supported social media platforms.

Check out the next steps below for more in-depth guides or follow-up actions


πŸ“š Next steps

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