Video Thumbnails

[msbukkuri]

Dear Twitter Staff,

In the Twitter Ads UI, It looks like there is a way to change the thumbnail of a video after uploading it. See screenshot:

Is there a way to do this via the Ads API? Please advise.

[msbukkuri]

@JBabichJapan @andrs @jillblaz Any help here guys? We could really use some help.

[majoritasdev]

Hi @msbukkuri! The only place where I used a video thumbnail (so far) was when creating a video app download card (image_media_id field). I didn’t see there to be any way of associating a thumbnail to a video object, out of any other context.

[msbukkuri]

Thanks @majoritasdev. I’m aware of this and have used it on the video app card end point.

We are interested in changing the thumbnail of Video Tweet only.

[majoritasdev]

I see. I didn’t see in the API to be able to do that… I looked at https://dev.twitter.com/ads/reference/post/accounts/%3Aaccount_id/tweet and https://dev.twitter.com/rest/reference/post/statuses/update.

Twitter Staff, can you confirm this, please?

[rchoi]

Sorry, we currently do not allow updates to the preview / thumbnail for video view campaigns via the API. And correct, the most up to date documentation will be here:

Video App Cards: https://dev.twitter.com/ads/reference/put/accounts/%3Aaccount_id/cards/video_app_download/%3Aid

Video Conversation Cards: https://dev.twitter.com/ads/reference/put/accounts/%3Aaccount_id/cards/video_conversation/%3Acard_id

[andypiper]

This feature has now been added. See

Announcement: Setting video poster images

Starting today, users will be able to set poster images (thumbnails) for videos using the poster_image_media_id parameter on the POST accounts/:account_id/videos and PUT accounts/:account_id/videos/:id endpoints. Using a poster image with different dimensions than the video dimensions may cause the thumbnail to be misaligned or cropped, so we strongly encourage the use of the same dimensions when possible. As before, if this is not specified, the first frame will be used by default. Note that …

[andypiper]