Does YouTube Have A Video Widget To Embed Shows In My Blog?
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.
June 20th, 2008 at 11:33 am
Nice trick. Useful for bloggers ! Thanks!
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