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YOU CAN NOW ADD A VIDEO COVER ON LINKEDIN

Make your LinkedIn profile stand out from the crowd.

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YOU CAN NOW ADD A VIDEO COVER ON LINKEDIN

Everybody uses LinkedIn. Whether you are a self-employed Influencer or an Influencer Manager at an agency – this platform is used by everyone to keep in touch with their professional and industry connections.

You can now add a cover story to your profile in addition to your profile photo. Adding a short introductory video further adds to the credibility of your profile and enhances your personal brand. The cover story will be displayed as a three second preview (mute) to members, before reverting to the profile photo. Members will have to tap on it to view the full video. Members with a cover story will have an orange circle around their profile photo. Keep in mind this is a mobile-only feature. 

Important: You can only record a cover story from the LinkedIn mobile app.

To add a cover story:

  1. Tap your profile photo > View Profile.
  2. Tap the Add icon on your profile photo >  Add cover story >  to Record video.

Note:

• You’d have to enable the camera and microphone access to record a cover story.
• The video should be at least three seconds long. You can stop recording any time after this by tapping the record button.

3. After recording, you can:

• Watch a preview of your cover story
• Select the visibility of your cover story

4. Tap Next > Add to profile from the adjust preview screen.

To view, edit, or delete your cover story:

1. Tap your profile picture > View Profile.
2. Tap your profile photo > View or edit cover story.
3. From here, you can:

• Tap  Edit to increase or decrease the preview size of the video, use video filters, adjust, change the position and size, or rotate your video.
• Tap  Add to add a new video.
• Tap  Delete to delete your cover story.
• Change the visibility of your cover story.

Notes:

• A cover story can’t exceed 30 seconds.
• You must be using the latest version of the LinkedIn mobile app to create and watch cover stories.
• The profile video feature is currently unavailable for members located in China.
• If a member has disabled autoplay of videos on LinkedIn, then the member won’t be able to view the preview.
• You can view and delete a cover story from the LinkedIn desktop site.

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