Why Can I Not Upload a Video to My Facebook Cover

This is no Apr Fool's joke…Facebook is deprecating the use of Video Covers in Business Pages.

You may have noticed at some point since the offset of this month (April of 2021) that your Facebook Video Covers are no longer playing. Instead, your Video Comprehend has been replaced with the thumbnail image of your previously uploaded/selected video.

Yous may take too noticed that the selection "Choose From Video" is also missing from the Edit menu of the Cover options:

Additionally, y'all may have seen that when viewing your Business Folio under the Concern Manager view (https://business concern.facebook.com/YourPageUsername) that the options to "Cull From Videos" and "Upload From Videos" is yet present (at least as of this posting on nineteen April 2021):

Interestingly, if you follow the steps to "Choose" or "Upload" a Video in this view it will take you through the process of adding a video, selecting the thumbnail, etc.; however, in the end all that will appear is the thumbnail subsequently you consummate the steps.

Initially we idea this to exist a issues in the system…maybe an accident that occurred in the rollout of a new update; however (to my astonishment), I have confirmed the post-obit with Facebook Marketing Support today (19 Apr 2021):

"Our team was able to bank check on this result and unfortunately the cover video feature is in the procedure of been deprecated and then will not be bachelor in the foreseeable future. I understand that this is not entirely the solution you are hoping for only I'm glad that we were able to provide clarity on the matter."

Translation: In the software world "deprecation" means that the function is being removed and will no longer exist supported in future code revisions.

So, there information technology is…at least for now, R.I.P. Video Covers.

The History

Facebook Video Covers were added every bit a new office in Summer of 2017. This was a nice enhancement, but at that time information technology was only supported through a browser, meaning that the Video Cover would play when viewing a Facebook Business organization Page through a browser; all the same, when viewing the Business Page in the Facebook App (installed on your device) it would only display the video's thumbnail.

A couple years later, Facebook added back up for Video Covers in its App, which brought this nice office to its total evolution in both browser and Facebook App views.

The challenge over time has been the dimension differences betwixt Desktop and App, changing dimensions over time (most recently in the "New Facebook" format introduced in Summer/Fall of 2020), likewise as other problems…ranging from people not being able to upload/use Video Covers at all to the videos pixelating (becoming blurry) afterward 90 days.

I suppose that Facebook has just decided to pull the plug on this feature instead of investing in making information technology work. I truly hope that they volition change their mind and reintroduce the characteristic in the future. It really did make their Business Pages stand up out vs. the competition and provided a professional person look and feel when washed properly.

The Future

Facebook Back up did land that the function "…will not be available in the foreseeable time to come" which does leave open up the opportunity of a render, simply for at present information technology appears that their plan is to move forward without whatsoever video format capability in Page Covers. This means it'southward back to using single static images or utilizing the Slideshow characteristic which is simply a collection of static images that requires viewers to "click through" each slide manually (i.e., they do non automatically advance like you might run into on a website).

Facebook does ever ask for feedback on their platform from users. While this endeavor many times seems futile, I tin attest to the fact that they always do ask me to provide feedback and assure me that the reports are read. Then, perhaps with enough reports we can prompt them to reconsider the decision to deprecate? One can only hope…

Hither is how to provide feedback:

1. Login to Facebook
2. Click the "downward" pointer in the pinnacle-right corner and select the "Give Feedback" pick:
   
3. Submit your Feedback. Here is what I have submitted to them (feel complimentary to copy or write something similar):

Paul Estes – Managing Director
GoSocial Amanuensis
world wide web.linkedin.com/in/GoSocialPaul
www.facebook.com/GoSocialPaul

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Source: https://www.gosocialagent.com/goodbye-facebook-video-covers-or-at-least-until-we-meet-again

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