diff --git a/server/index.ts b/server/index.ts
index 13253ec..9bce027 100644
--- a/server/index.ts
+++ b/server/index.ts
@@ -143,9 +143,14 @@ app.use((req, res, next) => {
           `<meta property="og:title" content="${escapeHtml(video.title)}"`
         );
         
+        // Truncate description to 150 characters for clean social preview
+        let shortDescription = video.description || `${video.title} – Jetzt ansehen auf video.folx.tv`;
+        if (shortDescription.length > 150) {
+          shortDescription = shortDescription.substring(0, 147) + '...';
+        }
         template = template.replace(
           /<meta property="og:description" content="[^"]*"/,
-          `<meta property="og:description" content="${escapeHtml(video.description || `Watch ${video.title} on go4.video`)}"`
+          `<meta property="og:description" content="${escapeHtml(shortDescription)}"`
         );
         
         // Replace og:image - handle both with and without id attribute
@@ -173,7 +178,7 @@ app.use((req, res, next) => {
         
         template = template.replace(
           /<meta name="twitter:description" content="[^"]*"/,
-          `<meta name="twitter:description" content="${escapeHtml(video.description || `Watch ${video.title} on go4.video`)}"`
+          `<meta name="twitter:description" content="${escapeHtml(shortDescription)}"`
         );
         
         // Also update URL and secure image tags that have id attributes