Use a video as the cover of your petition

How to add one

1. In the cover picker, on the create page or the edit page, choose a video file instead of an image. You can also make one of the videos already in the petition text the cover.
2. The video is converted for the web and checked automatically. Once it is ready, it appears at the top of the petition.
3. Choose Add an image for sharing, move the slider to the moment you want, and crop it. That picture is what people see when the petition is shared on social media.

Readers see a still picture of the video with a play button. The video plays only when they choose it.

Why a video

A face and a voice carry what a paragraph cannot. Someone telling in thirty seconds why the matter is personal to them gives a stranger a reason to stop scrolling, and the same video works on the petition page, on a phone and in a shared link.

Limits worth knowing

• A video can be up to two minutes long and up to 200 MB.
• MP4, MOV, WebM and 3GP files are accepted.
• The video is shown only after it has passed the automatic check.
• You decide whether the video player shows a download button.