Video content is perfect for social media attention spans and tends to travel better than blocks of text. Now that you’ve uploaded your media to Wistia, you can share it to social media platforms like Facebook, X, and LinkedIn. If you’re not using these platforms and you want to share your media through other methods, such as in an email, you can use the Copy Link and Thumbnail option to paste the thumbnail of your media.

X Cards allow viewers to play your Wistia video directly in their timeline. To share your media on X, head to your media page, click "Share," then "Share Link."

Select the "X" option to automatically draft a post with your video's link, title, and thumbnail. Or, copy and paste your media link directly in a new X post.

Viewers can then click play and watch your video directly in their X feed.

Share a link to your media on Facebook in just a few clicks. From your media page, click "Share" then "Share link."

Select the "Facebook" option in the Share modal to post your media's link and thumbnail to your timeline.

Once shared, viewers who click on the thumbnail will be redirected to the public media page to watch your video.

Does your media's title, description, or thumbnail appear to be out of date on your Facebook post? When you share content on Facebook, the shared page often contains Open Graph tags that tell Facebook which information about your media to display for your post. However, Facebook only automatically re-scrapes this information every 30 days. Enter your media URL in Facebook's Sharing Debugger to prompt Facebook to re-scrape the metadata and display updated information.

Maybe you want to post your thumbnail to Facebook, but you want the link for it to point back to your website. If so, you can use the Open Graph tags we produce for ’public' media to accomplish this. Facebook uses the Open Graph tags to specify what content from the website should be posted.

To do this, first embed the media on your website. Make sure your folder is unlocked, and add a description.

View the source on the media page and look for all of the tags of the form. There should be approximately 8 tags as shown below.

These are the Open Graph tags we have created for your media. You will need to change the og:url tag to be the URL of the page where you have embedded the media (and are putting the OpenGraph tags). Add these to the head of your website and share the page URL to Facebook.

LinkedIn currently accepts Wistia link and thumbnail embeds in posts and Pulse articles. Embedding Wistia media in profiles is not supported by LinkedIn at this time.

To embed your media on LinkedIn, all you need is the media’s Wistia URL. For example, https://support.wistia.com/medias/h1z3uqsjal.

Media embedded in LinkedIn Pulse articles or Posts will display a thumbnail image with a title, description, and link to your media in Wistia. LinkedIn does not support inline embedding of Wistia-hosted content in Posts or Pulse articles, so media embedded there will not play inline on the LinkedIn feed.

Made a change to your media, such as updating the title or thumbnail, and LinkedIn is still showing the old version? Not to worry, just pop that media URL into the LinkedIn Post Inspector, and LinkedIn will re-scrape the video for the latest metadata.

To enable playback on LinkedIn with Domain Restrictions enabled, you’ll need to add cdn.embedly.com to your list of allowed domains in your Wistia account settings. Because LinkedIn uses Embed.ly for video playback, this domain needs to be allowlisted in addition to linkedin.com.

To configure your media to start playing at a specific time, click "Share," then "Share Link" on the media page. Check off the "Link to a specific time" option and enter a timestamp in the box to the right. You can also manually edit the timestamp directly in the URL.

The Copy Link and Thumbnail option allows you to share a direct media link along with a thumbnail and play button. When a viewer clicks on the thumbnail or link, they'll be redirected to the Wistia media page to watch the video. To copy your media's link and thumbnail: