Share Your Youtube Video To Facebook Alongside The Right Thumbnail In Addition To Description

Sharing a YouTube video to Facebook is easy, but sometimes Facebook uses an outdated thumbnail or description. Fortunately, yous tin dismiss ready that - or at to the lowest degree instruct far less probable to happen.

YouTube does non offering whatever agency to automatically post service your videos to your Facebook profile or page. Instead yous tin dismiss portion the video - yours or anyone else's - from the video sentinel page or yesteryear conduct posting the link on Facebook.

Share a YouTube video to Facebook on a desktop computer

You tin dismiss portion a video to Facebook or whatever of the major social media sites amongst only a few clicks.

1. Open the video sentinel page.

2. Below the video click the "Share" icon

3. Click the Facebook icon

4. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 window volition popular upwards that lets yous write your post service as well as pick out the post service settings

5. Post

Video: How to portion YouTube videos

Share a video link conduct on Facebook

An choice to using the YouTube "share" pick is to glue a video link conduct into a Facebook post.

When yous produce that, Facebook volition automatically catch the YouTube video thumbnail as well as description.

Help ensure the right thumbnail as well as description are displayed on Facebook

Sometimes when yous portion a YouTube video link,  Facebook uses an outdated thumbnail or description. How tin dismiss yous preclude that from happening?

Wait to portion the video until yous are certain it is:

• fully processed
• made public
• the thumbnail is onrush YouTube
• the description are onrush YouTube

If yous alter the thumbnail or description, outdated details may look if yous (or anyone else) shares the video earlier Facebook has updated its cache. So ho-hum downward as well as don't rush to post.

What tin dismiss yous produce if Facebook is using outdated video details?

If yous can't facial expression for Facebook to update it's cache, at that spot are a few fixes yous tin dismiss try:

• Write the right description inwards your post
• Enter the video URL inwards the Facebook debug tool to at 1 time update the cached description
• If all else fails, try reporting the occupation to Facebook

More data inwards the YouTube Help Center:  Wrong video description or thumbnail on Facebook

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