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Does YouTube Have A Video Widget To Embed Shows In My Blog?

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Question: I want to share videos from the Daily Flip with my audience by embedding the video code in my sidebar. But, I don’t want to do the updates manually. Is it possible to subscribe to a YouTube channel, embed code and have automatic updates occur with each new release from the channel?

Yes, it is possible, but not with YouTube… yet. If you want to embed a “show” of your or someone else’s videos in your blog or website, you’ll have grab a show player from a site like Magnify.net, assuming that show is created there.

In other words, The Daily Flip show is not just uploaded to YouTube, but it’s also uploaded to Blip.tv and is also duplicated in its own channel at Magnify.net.

Here’s option 1 for you: View my show page at Blip at http://jimkukral.blip.tv/. Then you can create a custom show player here.

The second option is for you to look at the Daily Flip Magnify channel at http://thedailyflip.magnify.net/. Magnify allows you to create a video widget of my show, check out that page here.

So remember, it’s always best to upload your videos to more than one location… not just YouTube. Other video players have better options you might like more.

How Do I Upload My Videos To Multiple Sites Like YouTube, Metacafe & Revver?

Question: Finding and uploading all of my videos to the most important video sharing sites takes a LOT of time. Is there software that allows me to find the important sites to upload to, and then help me upload my videos to them all faster?

Answer: As video sharing gets more popular, many bloggers and video producers want to get their videos viewed by as many people as possible. To do that, you need to get your videos uploaded to all of the important video sharing sites, like YouTube and Metacafe and Blip.tv for example.

Why? Because the more your video is seen, the better it is for you. It doesn’t matter if you’re a blogger or a web-entrepreneur, you’re making your videos to be seen by others in hopes of either drawing traffic for your blog or making money online with products and services.

Until recently, there weren’t any high-quality solutions for multiple uploading tools. But that’s changed. Check out a program called Video Post Robot.

Video Post Robot is the perfect tool for those smart entrepreneurs who are already taking advantage of online video…

Hours of time can be saved saved using this tool which automates the process of uploading to multiple sites.

Here’s a video of Chris Pirllo explaining why he likes Video Post Robot.

http://live.pirillo.com/ / http://chris.pirillo.com/media/

As Chris says, it stinks that you have to pay for the service, but for small entrepreneurs who do online video, the time saver alone is worth the costs. Get your copy of Video Post Robot today.

How Do I Put Videos In My Blog Entries?

Question: How i put videos on my blog?

I’m glad to hear that you’re thinking about this, because adding videos to your blog entries is a great way to engage your readers, and entertain them too. :)

Pretty much all you have to do is copy the code for the video you want to embed in a blog entry.

Let’s use YouTube as an example.

Visit this page at YouTube (one of AsktheBlogger’s videos).

See the area to the right of the video? There are two ways to “grab code” to use to link or show videos in your blog. (Are highlighted in yellow box)

1. You can use the “URL” code to create a hyperlink to the video page at YouTube. Or…

2. You can use the “embed” code to actually embed the video in your blog entry.

Embedding your video is the better method in most cases because it doesn’t require your reader to have to leave your blog and be interrupted.