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How do I add a YouTube video to my Web page or blog?

I keep finding these great videos on YouTube and want to include some of them in my Typepad blog but I have no idea how to do that. I tried dragging and dropping while I was composing an entry, but was totally unsurprised when it didn't work either. Can it be done?

Dave's Answer:

Ah yes, the astonishingly popular site YouTube. Turns out that it's pretty darn easy to find a video on YouTube and then include it in your blog entry or on your Web page.

I dug around and found an interesting little video showing the globe sculpture on the grounds of the Vatican Museum. Here's a link: Globe at Vatican Museum.

When you go there to check it out, notice the navigational elements on the right side of the video clip itself, in the "About This Video" box. It looks like this:

You can see the box you need, it's labeled "Embed" and the code, if you were to unwrap it all, would look like this:

When I actually copy and paste it here, you'll see, the video just shows up:

Cool, eh? That'll answer your question and also point out how many people are doing video blogging (aka "vlogging").

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Comments

Dave,
I try doing that with my moveable type blog, and it still doesn't work. It is very frustrating. Is it me?

Posted by: NBS at December 22, 2006 1:18 PM

Hello,

I am also trying to include my Youtube Videos to my webpages which I am doing. Just the different thing is that I wish to upload videos from my website to the YouTube server
and have those videos played back from my web site. It needs to be done seamlessly
without again having to register(I am already registered on YT) on YouTube or have the uploaded videos shown on or accesible
by the public on YouTube. I just wish to use the YouTube technology and server so I
don't have to reinvent the capability to adjust videos for size, length and resolution to
keep memory down.

Just wonder if this could possible. Could anybody help me with any idea /solution. Thanks in advance!

Regards,
Mukund

Posted by: Mukund at January 30, 2007 11:08 PM

can i use youtube window in my forum page?can the readers of my message see the video?how can i do this.thank you very much..

Posted by: Philip at February 9, 2007 6:37 PM

HOW DO I ADD MY OWN VIDEO TO YOUTUBE I WANT TO ADD MY FLYING VIDEOS TO IT PLEASE HELP

CHEERS #

DAN

Posted by: dan at February 22, 2007 8:05 AM

Great info - I'm using the Youtube embed code to place gate hardware videos on my site. Thanks

Posted by: Mike Childs at February 25, 2007 2:21 PM

Dave

Massive thanks for your useful comments.

Websites like yours enable and empower others to be creative and maybe change the world for the better.

Good on ya fella!

Nick.

Posted by: Nick at April 28, 2007 6:29 AM

Dave you rock!

I just started to design my first website.

I embedded a video in 30 secondes with Sitespinner.

Thanks mate!

Posted by: Wilfried at June 5, 2007 8:14 AM

How do I enlarge the video size in Office live.I am trying different ways.. None of them r working..

Posted by: Naveen at June 29, 2007 6:55 PM

I would like to add video to my websites and blog but when I add the embedded info as per your instructions above via cut n paste ... nothing happens. In Dreamweaver do I have to add the embed code via Add > HTML > Script ? Or, is there some other way I am missing. I am a novice. Thank you for your additional instructions. Deidre

Posted by: Deidre at July 31, 2007 7:19 PM

hey Dave,
I just found out about your site, thanks and keep helping us(newies).

Posted by: cessy at August 9, 2007 3:40 PM

Hey, thanks man... It's just now when I embed the vid into my page, the video wont play.

It appears, but when I play it, it goes right to replay as if the video was over, yet it never even started. :-\

Posted by: Flint at September 11, 2007 7:24 AM

Dear Dave

Am trying to psot a You Tube video on my TypePad blog. Did what you say above, copied coding in 'embeded' and pasted in my post, but it only shows the coding and not the video. Will the video come up when I've completed and saved the post, or should it show already before saving?

Sophia

Posted by: Sophia at October 4, 2007 3:31 AM

Thanks for a fast, precise and real-world set of instructions to run youtube videos on my website.
Took a minute or less.

QUESTION: when the youtube video ends, how do I remove the image from the web page?

Posted by: Gerry Gawne at October 20, 2007 8:10 PM

HOW DO I ADD MY OWN VIDEO TO YOUTUBE I WANT TO ADD MY FLYING VIDEOS TO IT PLEASE HELP

Posted by: nemanja at December 10, 2007 4:29 PM

Dave,

I've been trying to add my videos to UTUBE's

main page or even the Channel main page.

Without success...

Could you help me?

Thanks,

Brian

Posted by: Brian C. at March 12, 2008 2:27 PM

Im trying to add this cool video to a email, can i do that?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfHxcu_grN0

Posted by: damien at May 7, 2008 6:14 AM

Could u teach me how to convert my video format from real player to any that later I can upload to youtube,because every video that I have in my pc have been download from the realplayer program that let u download from website,and when i upload to youtube it tells me that this format of video is no support from youtube

Posted by: Alex at August 4, 2008 11:58 PM

i want to add my vidio and pic in youtube what can i do

Posted by: sardar sajid at October 30, 2008 4:04 AM

Remeber guy's not all blog site's support this. As for *.HTML you will need to use a .Html code editing tool.
Dreamweaver is a very powerfull yet simple tool to use. It has it own FTP system witch can be very helpful with ever growing site's.

Keep on blogging!

Posted by: joshua at November 11, 2008 7:53 PM

Hey guy !!!!

follow the instructions from youtube

http://www.youtube.com/youtubeonyoursite

It will generate the code for you. Just follow the steps it is really easy!!!!

:-)

Posted by: Jose at December 8, 2008 11:30 AM

Help. I am building my web site a home for my recent class reunion. my site is www.kickingupmusicaldust.com
I bought a web domain and tool from Go daddy over the week end. I am try to get a couple video dowload to my site. Tom Petty's Last Dance for Mary Jane and Neil Young's Heart of gold of you tube. I do know I just need to know the scripts for each song. But how do I find the scripts inof for each song and paste into Go daddy loader for scripst icon so it will down load and play each video??? Help???? 480 703 4555 Steve

Posted by: Steven at December 8, 2008 12:54 PM

I wanted to listen to some music on lryics.com and I cant because it says embedding disabled by request. I do I get it back and what exactly is it?

Posted by: Karla at January 24, 2009 10:45 AM

Dear Dave

i want display my website with video clips... how to display explain in asp.net with c#.. plz help me

Posted by: Kavin at February 6, 2009 3:27 AM

Dave so i don;t really know wat i am doing but i am trying to learn so can you help me. i don't wanna pay any money and i won't to know how i put a video on my website it is cheap i know but syill here it is http://cobbcolby.web.officelive.com/default.aspx
if there is a way can you help me and if i can't do you know wat website i can have for a free domain name and web design please help me

-Colby

Posted by: Colby at February 6, 2009 7:22 PM

how can i add my own vedio on you tube to share with others

Posted by: kundan at February 9, 2009 4:10 AM

HOW DO I ADD MY OWN VIDEOS IN YOUTUBE, I DONT KNOW HOW DAVID...PLS HELP ME..,I NEED IT,BECAUSE I HAVE A SURPRISE FOR MY SOMEONE IN OUR SECOND ANNIVERSARY,PLS HELP ME DAVID..TNX..

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Posted by: prasad at March 15, 2009 5:09 AM

How do I add a YouTube video to my Web page or

Posted by: prasad at March 15, 2009 5:11 AM

this code is used in my working site nepalibahrain.com its a effective and easy to search for me
thanks

Posted by: pusp joshi at April 22, 2009 12:42 AM

i need to add my own video.but i don't know how to do it,,,please,can't you help me?

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