diff --git a/web/sections/AddComponentDialog.tsx b/web/sections/AddComponentDialog.tsx
index f90470e..c8f4e49 100644
--- a/web/sections/AddComponentDialog.tsx
+++ b/web/sections/AddComponentDialog.tsx
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ import { Dialog, DialogContent, DialogHeader, DialogTitle } from '@/components/u
  * A kind the server would accept and this has never heard of is not creatable anyway.
  */
 
-export type ComponentKind = 'free-text';
+export type ComponentKind = 'free-text' | 'video';
 
 type Choice = {
   kind: ComponentKind | null;
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ type Choice = {
 const CHOICES: Choice[] = [
   { kind: 'free-text', label: 'Text', hint: 'Words, headings and links', Icon: Type },
   { kind: null, label: 'Image', hint: 'One picture from the media store', Icon: Images },
-  { kind: null, label: 'Video', hint: 'A video, with a poster', Icon: Video },
+  { kind: 'video', label: 'Video', hint: 'No controls, a poster, autoplay and loop', Icon: Video },
   { kind: null, label: 'Gallery', hint: 'A named set of media', Icon: Images },
 ];
 
diff --git a/web/sections/PageBuilderPanel.tsx b/web/sections/PageBuilderPanel.tsx
index 1061299..0207bd9 100644
--- a/web/sections/PageBuilderPanel.tsx
+++ b/web/sections/PageBuilderPanel.tsx
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import { paintCanvas, type CanvasComponent, type CanvasSection } from '../canvas
 import { AddSectionDialog, type SectionLayout } from './AddSectionDialog';
 import { FreeTextDialog } from './FreeTextDialog';
 import { AddComponentDialog, type ComponentKind } from './AddComponentDialog';
+import { MediaPicker } from '../MediaPicker';
 import { pageFromParam, usePages, type Page } from '../usePages';
 
 /**
@@ -67,6 +68,8 @@ export const PageBuilderPanel = () => {
   const [editing, setEditing] = useState<{ id: number | null; sectionId: number; column: number; html: string } | null>(
     null,
   );
+  /** Choosing the file for a video — new when `id` is null, otherwise replacing an existing one. */
+  const [picking, setPicking] = useState<{ id: number | null; sectionId: number; column: number } | null>(null);
   /*
     Bumped after a write, and passed to SitePreview to remount the frame.
 
@@ -193,15 +196,48 @@ export const PageBuilderPanel = () => {
   const chooseKind = (kind: ComponentKind) => {
     if (!choosing) return;
     setChoosing(null);
-    // Only one kind reaches here today. When there are more, this is where each one's editor opens.
+    // Each kind opens its own editor. A kind with no case here cannot be created, which is the point.
     if (kind === 'free-text') setEditing({ id: null, ...choosing, html: '' });
+    if (kind === 'video') setPicking({ id: null, ...choosing });
+  };
+
+  /*
+    A video is a PATH, saved as soon as it is chosen.
+
+    Free text needs a dialog because writing is a thing people do halfway; picking a file is one act
+    with one outcome, so there is nothing to draft and nothing to cancel out of afterwards.
+  */
+  const saveVideo = async (url: string) => {
+    if (!page || !picking) return;
+    const base = `/fofos-admin/pages/${page.id}/sections/${picking.sectionId}/components`;
+    setPicking(null);
+    setError(null);
+    try {
+      if (picking.id === null) {
+        await clientRef.current.post(base, { kind: 'video', column: picking.column, content: { url } });
+      } else {
+        await clientRef.current.patch(`${base}/${picking.id}`, { content: { url } });
+      }
+      setRendered((n) => n + 1);
+    } catch (failure) {
+      setError(readableError(failure));
+    }
   };
 
   const editComponent = (component: CanvasComponent) => {
     const owner = sections.find((section) => section.components.some((one) => one.id === component.id));
-    const stored = owner?.components.find((one) => one.id === component.id);
+    if (!owner) return;
+
+    // Edit means whatever editing THIS kind means. The canvas draws one button; which door it opens is
+    // decided here, where the kinds are known.
+    if (component.kind === 'video') {
+      setPicking({ id: component.id, sectionId: owner.id, column: component.column });
+      return;
+    }
+
+    const stored = owner.components.find((one) => one.id === component.id);
     const html = typeof stored?.content?.html === 'string' ? stored.content.html : '';
-    setEditing({ id: component.id, sectionId: owner?.id ?? 0, column: component.column, html });
+    setEditing({ id: component.id, sectionId: owner.id, column: component.column, html });
   };
 
   const saveText = async (html: string) => {
@@ -276,6 +312,13 @@ export const PageBuilderPanel = () => {
 
       <AddComponentDialog open={choosing !== null} onCancel={() => setChoosing(null)} onChoose={chooseKind} />
 
+      <MediaPicker
+        open={picking !== null}
+        onClose={() => setPicking(null)}
+        onPick={(path) => void saveVideo(path)}
+        title="Choose a video"
+      />
+
       <FreeTextDialog
         open={editing !== null}
         busy={creating}