Educators, speakers, or teachers who want to share access to their presentation videos.Customer Support who use video walk-throughs for frequent customer questions.Artists who want their mailing list to see their work on YouTube.It’s also great for anyone that frequently uses video content, like: This is great for anyone who wants to leverage video to introduce themselves like: Now just finish your email as you normally would and click send! Embed YouTube Videos in Gmail makes it easy to leverage your video assets! That’s it! Whatever video you selected will be automatically inserted into your email, like so: Once you’ve found the video you want to include in your email, just click on it. You can also select All Videos, which will let you search all public videos on YouTube. My Videos will automatically show a grid menu of all videos in your linked YouTube channel. The YouTube Videos tab gives you two options in a dropdown. The Recent Videos tab will show videos you’ve recently browsed. You’ll notice a new YouTube Icon in the toolbar at the bottom of your composition pane.Ĭlick the YouTube icon. To get started, click Compose on your inbox screen, as you would with any email. Your inbox will automatically reload, and you’re ready to go. To add Embed Youtube Videos in Gmail to your gmail account, just go to the Chrome Store, click the +ADD TO CHROME button.Ĭlick Add extension in the popup window. Here’s how to use Embed YouTube in three easy steps: Install the Embed YouTube Videos in Gmail Chrome Extension Simple use Chrome extension Embed YouTube videos in your emails without ever leaving Gmail Here’s a detailed overview of video in email client support you might find helpful.Whether you want to attach a new promo, a sample of your work, a product demo, or just send a funny cat video to your sister, we’ve made it easier than ever before. It saves you a lot of time and helps you organize all of your YouTube videos. Now you can attach YouTube videos to emails without ever having to leave Gmail. In summary – if you want the YouTube video to display – you have to disable email campaign link tracking. If you’re sending a campaign through Pinpointe or any other ESP and enable tracking code – the YouTube URL will be replaced with an ESP’s tracking URL and Gmail / Hotmail won’t recognize that this is a YouTube video link. The limitation here is that Gmail and Hotmail need to ‘see’ the actual YouTube video link. Just insert the link as demonstrated in the image above. Note – do not use YouTube embed code – all email clients including Gmail and Hotmail will just ignore this and nothing will happen. In order for Gmail (and Hotmail) to work – simply insert the actual link to the YouTube video. Second, don’t assume the video is going to display – adding a call-to-action like “View video below” is certainly a recipe for confusion for any subscriber using a client outside of Gmail. If you want to make your video one of the focal elements of your email, be sure to go light on the content. Note that the YouTube Preview section of an email is fairly subtle so if your email campaign is more than a paragraph or two – your video preview is likely to be missed entirely. Here’s an example of this looks in Gmail: Using YouTube Previews to Display Video in Gmail (and Hotmail)īy uploading the video first to YouTube, then adding the URL to your HTML or plain-text email as text, you can get an inbox-playable preview to display. Plus some filters (aside from gmail) wil simply block the larger email. If your video is under 25MB – you can include the video directly – but we don’t recommend this even though it technically works, because non-gmail recipients of your email campaign may not be too keen on having you clog up their inbox with larger files. It turns out that Gmail kind of supports video in email on a limited basis.
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In our previous article we explained how to embed video in your email campaigns.