Any way to embed a YouTube video on a plugin page?

[techgamer15 43]

As the title says, I would like to promote a YouTube video for reviewing my callout plugin : 

 

Jeff Favignano did a video with my callout plugin, and I think it would be beneficial for people to see the callouts in action first as a quick overview. 

 

At the moment, the link displays as text only, and I've seen other people embed YouTube videos on their plugins, so how might I do that?

 

Thanks.

Edited July 15, 2018 by techgamer15

[Reddington 4,447]

1 hour ago, techgamer15 said:

As the title says, I would like to promote a YouTube video for reviewing my callout plugin : 

 

Jeff Favignano did a video with my callout plugin, and I think it would be beneficial for people to see the callouts in action first as a quick overview. 

 

At the moment, the link displays as text only, and I've seen other people embed YouTube videos on their plugins, so how might I do that?

 

Thanks.

 

 

Some videos can not be embedded due to the Youtuber disabling it..  I just tried one of Jeff and Bugg's videos, both said they couldn't be embedded.  I don't know for sure if this is something they themselves disabled it or if it's a Youtube idiocy.

 

[techgamer15 43]

Just now, Giordano said:

 

 

Some videos can not be embedded due to the Youtuber disabling it..  I just tried one of Jeff and Bugg's videos, both said they couldn't be embedded.  I don't know for sure if this is something they did or if it's a Youtube idiocy.

 

That's a shame that they did that but thank-you for checking for me. Much appreciated.

[Reddington 4,447]

Just now, techgamer15 said:

That's a shame that they did that but thank-you for checking for me. Much appreciated.

 

You're welcome.  I don't know much about Youtube revenue and how it works, but I assume they disabled it because it benefits them more for people to come to the actual video page.

[techgamer15 43]

Just now, Giordano said:

 

You're welcome.  I don't know much about Youtube revenue and how it works, but I assume they disabled it because it benefits them more for people to come to the actual video page.

I reckon that's a valid reason as to why they did it actually, as it probably doesn't register it as a view if they do it from an external website.

[Will 2,178]

For the reasoning behind not allowing embedding - I imagine it relates more to ads. If you use an adblocker and only whitelist YouTube, it will still block ads on videos embedded on other sites.

 

To embed a video you just have to paste the link. Just make sure there isn't anything extra at the end of the link (links end with "watch?v=xxxxxxxxxxx" if you copy from the browser). Or just right click in the video and copy video URL to not even have to worry about that.