How To Upload & Post A Video To A Facebook Page? [in 2021]

Video is the most powerful content format currently on Facebook. Video posts usually engage your audience better than an image or text post. In this Facebook page tutorial, we are going to show you how to upload and post a video to your Facebook page.

We are also going to show you how to upload a video to your Facebook profile, into your Facebook groups, and also how to change your Facebook page template to a video page template.

Without further ado, let’s dive in.

How To Post A Video To A Facebook Page?

Here is how to upload and post a video to a Facebook page:

1. Open the Facebook page
2. Click on ‘Photo/Video’ under ‘Create post’.
3. Select the video file from your computer
4. You can add a description to the video post
5. You can also click on ‘Video options’ to customize the video
6. First, you can add a video title and tags to the video
7. And you can also add captions, the thumbnail and crop the video.
8. When you are done with the customization, click on ‘Save’ then ‘Post.’

Video tab on the Facebook page

Once you share a video post on your Facebook page, you should be able to see it in the Video Facebook page tab.

You can reach the Video tab by clicking on the ‘Video’ tab on the Facebook page under the Cover photo. Here you can also create Facebook video playlists and series and get insights on how the video performed in terms of video views and engagement.

How To Upload A Video To Your Facebook profile?

To share a video post on your Facebook page:

1. Open your Facebook profile
2. Click on Photo/Video
3. Add photos/videos
4. Customize the video as you wish to do so.
5. Click on ‘Post’.

How to post a video to a Facebook group?

You can post a video the same way to a Facebook group as to a page:

1. Open the Facebook group
2. Click on Photo/Video under ‘what’s on your mind’
3. Upload the video to the Facebook group.
4. Customize it if you need to do so.
5. Click on ‘Post’.

Change your page template to a Video page

If videos are an essential part of your Facebook content marketing strategy, then one more thing that might be worth doing is to switch your Facebook page template to a video page template.

Here is how to change your page template to video page:

1. Open the Facebook page
2. Click on ‘Settings’ on the left column
3. Click on ‘Templates and Tab’.
4. Click on ‘Edit’.
5. Select ‘Video page’.
6. Click on ‘Apply template’

Now, Facebook page tabs such as the Video or Live tab should show up in the first places of your Facebook page.

How to add a video to your Facebook cover?

One more thing you can do is to add a video instead of a video to your Facebook page cover.

We have a separate tutorial where we discuss how to do it and the specs and dimensions you should use for an ideal Facebook page cover video.