How to Share Youtube Videos in Full Thumbnail Size on Facebook

We are going to learn a cheap yet useful trick hereby on how to share youtube videos in Full Thumbnail Size on Facebook. I know it has been bothering you to find your Youtube video links getting cropped to a smaller thumbnail spoiling the look and feel of your Facebook post.

UPDATE: This post is no longer valid now, since Facebook has started giving this feature as a default thing. You no longer have to use any third party software to make your videos full thumbnail size. So now you can share your link on FB page and it will automatically make it full thumbnail size.

You know I came across this when I accidentally uploaded the trailer of American Assassin on my Straight From a Movie FB page in full post size? I said, “Hey! This is new. Can this be done for all of my posts?”

Surprisingly the answer to this is yes.

Full Thumbnail Size Youtube on Facebook

Unfortunately, Facebook or Youtube doesn’t provide any mechanism to do that. We have to take the assistance of a third party software here. There are plenty of links out there that can be used to generate full size thumbnails of Youtube videos. Once you get the generated URL you can then share the same on Facebook.

This is how Facebook crops the video thumbnail image making things small and weird to look at:

Small Default Thumbnail View on Facebook for Youtube Videos

Third Party Links

These are the recommended links that I found very useful in changing the size of the Youtube Videos to their full thumbnail size on Facebook posts:

  • http://www.youtube-xl.com
  • http://www.vidrise.com

Here I will show you how to achieve that using these links.

How to Share Youtube Videos in Full Thumbnail Size on Facebook (First Link)

So here’s a step-by-step process to teach you how to share youtube videos in full thumbnail size on Facebook. Just follow the steps the way they have been put and you will be fine.

Step 1: The first step is to, of course, copy the Youtube link you wish to get the Full Thumbnail Size for.

Step 2: Go to either of the above-mentioned links. I will use the first one to finish the job.

yt2fb site for changing thumbnail size of youtube videos for sharing on FB

Step 3: Paste the copied Youtube link in the space provided. When you do that you will notice a preview of how things might appear once you are done.

Preview style of before and after thumbnail size

Step 4: This step should be the easiest. You have a huge button in the center shouting with a “Click Me” symbol. You still need a hint? Just click on the PRO Toolbox button.

When you do you will be given some options/ preferences that you can choose to adjust as per your need.

Image for Pro Toolbox Button on yt2fb site

Play Video Directly from Facebook

Step 5: If you want people to be able to play the youtube video directly from Facebook just click on the Facebook button. If you want them to be directed to the Youtube page, just click on the Youtube button.

In order to change Headline, Description, Start Time, or put a Thumbnail of your choice you have to sign up to their website.

If you don’t wish to make any changes and leave things as be, simply click on the create link button.

Step 6: You will get a link to be shared. Copy that link via the Copy button.

Final Ouptut for How to Share Youtube Videos in Full Thumbnail Size on Facebook

Step 7: Navigate to Facebook now where you wish to share your post. Click on Write Something Area where you generally post stuff on FB.

image for write something on FB post

Step 8: Paste the link that’s been copied in the given area.

image for how things will appear on FB page eventually after Full Thumbnail Video View

You can lose the URL link now, to make things look better. Replace it with stuff you want to say about your video. Use appropriate #hashtags to help people find it.

Step 9: Finally click on Publish and it’s done!

How to Share Youtube Videos in Full Thumbnail Size on Facebook (Second Link)

Here’s the second method to achieve the same.

Step 1: Navigate to the following link:

https://www.linkthisvideo.com/

link this video site

Step 2: 

Enter your Youtube link in the text field that says:

“Paste your YouTube video URL here”
click on button to generate full thumbnail video
Step 3: Then click on the Generate my awesome link for Facebook !  button.
generated link
It will generate you the link that should be copied.
Step 4: Copy the link or you could alternatively use the share button provided at the bottom to share the link on your timeline.
share button option
Step 5: Paste the link on your timeline or wherever you wish to see it posted. I am posting it on my page “The Hidden Pea” to show you how it appears:
pasted link on Facebook The Hidden Pea page
You can remove the link from the post since it has already been copied, add a catchy description to rivet the attention of people.
Step 6: Once done click on Publish.
You are done! It will publish it on the page.

Alternate methods to do that would be via other two links that I have mentioned above. You can suggest me other third party websites too, and I will put it up there for people to find.

Go have a blast soldier!

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Scottshak

Poet. Author. Blogger. Screenwriter. Director. Editor. Software Engineer. Author of "Songs of a Ruin" and proud owner of four websites and two production houses. Also, one of the geekiest Test Automation Engineers based in Ahmedabad.

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13 Responses

  1. Rodrigo says:

    You can use this website same as your link : https://www.linkthisvideo.com/

  2. Hi,

    I want to share with you all a chrome browser plugin – YT-XL and a website – http://www.youtube-xl.com which Make Your YouTube Video Post Thumbnail Look BIG And AWESOME On Facebook

  3. I just use http://www.vidrise.com which takes care of it all for me! It’s a free tool that is highly customizable and makes it easy to share YouTube videos with big thumbnails to Facebook and Twitter. As an added bonus there are statistics so you can measure the engagement and click through rates

  4. Jake says:

    Redirected me to an ” android virus” site and locked up my browser when clicking on “pro tools” with first link. 🙁

    • dumbitdude says:

      Hi Jake, those are pop-up ads. If you are using an ad blocker, it wouldn’t be a problem. If not you can simply close any pop up ads that open without paying attention to what are into them. Or even better just use youtube-xl.com. They don’t have any ads on their site. 🙂

      – Scottshak

  5. Dr.K.S.Garh says:

    I like very, very good method to explain

  6. dumbitdude says:

    Thank you Dr. K.S. Garh. Glad I could be of assistance. 🙂

    – Scottshak

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