YouTube video into one of our email campaigns in Luminate Online.

Michael Hardy · November 2013

I have attempted to add a short YouTube video into one of our email campaigns in Luminate Online.

I can see the video in the HTML content and then in the WYSIWYG and it works,

however, when I send a test email, I am unable to see the video in the email, but can see it if i open and view the email in a webpage.

I heard that there is a new improved way to do this as compared to the old way:

"To be compatible across most email clients it is recommended to have an image in the email that links to playing the video online. Most campaigns I've been a part of have a starting image that looks like the play button of the video and then have the video start on pageload to make it feel as seemless as possible."

Can you please give me direction?

Brian Mucha · November 2013

Almost no email clients will show a video embedded into an email directly.

So just create a nice thumbnail image, and make that a link to your video.

Lucas Metherall · April 2017

Brian Mucha:

Almost no email clients will show a video embedded into an email directly.

So just create a nice thumbnail image, and make that a link to your video.

Can you help a newbie to do that? i haev created the video player 'lookalike' image, but in the WYSIWYG it won't let me add a hyperlink to it. I'm not that familiar with HTML, but can probably copy paste an adjusted and correct version of the code you wrote above. Question is, where would it go?

<a href="https://youtube.com/mycoolvideo" target="_new"><img scr="http://mydomain.org/images/vidThumb.jpg" alt="Video Thumbnail" height="100" width="150" border="0" /></a>

YouTube video into one of our email campaigns in Luminate Online.

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