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You can now use YouTube videos as your cover video on DEV Posts (Also Mux and Twitch videos)

Ben Halpern on December 03, 2025

You can now use a YouTube video as the cover for your post—meaning it will appear above the title and feature prominently in the feed. Just go to ...

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Angie Jones • Dec 4 '25

love this!

adriens • Dec 5 '25

Just on time for the TMUX DEV challenge !

Shahrouz Nikseresht • Dec 4 '25

Finally YouTube cover videos, this is gonna make posts pop! 🔥 Thank you DEV team!

Varshith V Hegde • Dec 4 '25

Wow!!! I even saw the AI generated cover image feature

Varshith V Hegde • Dec 5 '25

@ben @jess Is there any way to embed mux video player in dev,to post itself ? i am not able to find liquid tag for that

Jess Lee The DEV Team • Dec 5 '25

@varshithvhegde our standard {% embed video_link %} syntax should work. You'll want to grab the playback URL from mux. Let me know if you have questions!

adriens • Jan 1 • Edited

Hi Jess, unfortyunately, while working on the current MUx DEV Challenge it appears the embed does not work :

Below the code :

stream.mux.com

And the video is here : player.mux.com/02sUXDw3XC3WkSDfzO2...

Varshith V Hegde • Jan 1

Try using it like below
{% embed https://player.mux.com/02sUXDw3XC3WkSDfzO2IQiEIfDB9d02yxqEgZ01q1PB0102E %}

adriens • Jan 1

OHHHHHH ... and it's a win ❣️

Thanks a lot for your help and... so fast 🤗

Varshith V Hegde • Jan 1

No problem . Happy to Help 🙌👍

Ben Sinclair • Dec 4 '25

Do Peertube next!

Jess Lee The DEV Team • Dec 3 '25

Wooohoo!

Art light • Dec 4 '25

👍

TheBitForge • Dec 4 '25

Amazing 🤯🤯🤯

Allison • Dec 4 '25

Great ! Its a Wow feature.

Web Developer Hyper • Dec 4 '25

Great idea for making the articles more creative and informative!
Thank you for the update.🎥

Ali Shary • Dec 9 '25

Nice update. Being able to use YouTube, Twitch, or Mux links as cover videos makes posts a lot more eye-catching, and it’s great that it works just by pasting a URL. This should be really useful for tutorials or project demos, especially with the Mux challenge going on.