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YouTube Tricks and Secret Code for Your Videos | No More Popup Window to YouTube

Posted on 23 August 2010 by Zack Covell

So here’s the deal. We all love learning and watching videos on YouTube.com

Nothing fancy today, but for those of you that take advantage of the embed code I’m about to give you it will change your webpages forever.

I have learned that this is not something youtube likes at all, but for all you marketers, this is powerful.

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When you currently embed someone else’s YouTube video you get a video that plays and if it gets clicked the person leaves your website and goes directly to the YouTube channel of the user who posted the video originally.

Now wouldn’t it be cool to have the ability to embed your YouTube videos and from others too without having the video make your readers leave your website?

Here’s what to do.

1. Copy this code from the Link below and paste it into a Notepad or Text Editor document:

Grab the Code here

We’ll be using the Trailer from Avatar as an example video because it was posted by someone else other than me and I don’t want people to click on the video while playing it and leave my site.

The video on the left is the ORIGINAL YOUTUBE EMBED code and the video on the right is my NEW YOUTUBE EMBED CODE without the popup effect. You’ll like it, try to click on both videos and see the difference.

2. After you have clicked on the two difference videos below now comes the fun part, your own videos from YouTube.

3. In the code you copied above you’ll see a section of text that relates to the YouTube video you wish to play.

4. In that text from the link above you see “cRdxXPV9GNQ” which is the normal VideoID after the equals sign at YouTube (e.g. this video is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRdxXPV9GNQ)

5. All you have to do now to get your own video set up and embedded on your site is replace the VideoID of you own video, or anyone elses, and replace the “cRdxXPV9GNQ” in the code above and you’re all set.

OLD VIDEO STYLE

NEW VIDEO STYLE

If you do not immediately see the difference between the videos please let me know ASAP. This is the coolest embed trick I’ve found in some time. Please comment below if this trick works for you too. See ya soon… Zack

P.S. You would also appreciate these YouTube posts by me:

http://zackcovell.com/free-giveaway-add-a-cool-shadow-below-your-videos-for-increased-ctr

http://www.zackcovell.com/1-youtube-step-you-must-take-how-to-add-a-wordpress-self-hosted-blog-to-youtube-com

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Living Loving Light,

Zack Covell

Social Scientist

POST TITLE: YouTube Tricks and Secret Code for Your Videos | No More Popup Window to YouTube
AUTHOR: Zack Covell
POSTED: 23rd August 2010
FILED AS: CTR click thru rate, Streaming Media, blogging, capture and squeeze pages, video marketing
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Get Your Ex Back

on 22nd Sep, 10 12:09pm

Wov that is a cool trick. I used to use a different player to embed Youtube video but that was against Youtube's TOS so I stopped using that. At least now I can safely embed videos without having to worry about them leaving my website.

Cheers
My recent post Ending a Relationship – Breaking Up is Hard To Do

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- Zack Covell
  
  on 4th Oct, 10 12:10pm
  
  Yes, I thank you for sharing that part, cause when I ran with this I was thinking about using this trick for peeps that have capture landing pages where you don't want people to leave that page at all.
  
  you know what I'm sayin?
  
  ttyl, Zack
  
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Pat

on 28th Sep, 10 05:09pm

Hi Zack,

I like the idea of this but I am unclear exactly what I am "replacing". You write that all we need to do is: "replace the VideoID of you own video, or anyone elses, and replace the “cRdxXPV9GNQ” in the code above and you’re all set." I'm not sure what to replace the cRdxXPV9GNQ with.

Please advise,
Thanks!
Pat

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- Zack Covell
  
  on 29th Sep, 10 09:09am
  
  Hi Pat,
  
  Yes yes, I totally get how it's sorta confusing. In the article here I'm saying that each and every video on Youtube, whether it's your own video or someone else's has a VideoID a video identification number that follows the same set of rules.
  
  For example, in the picture below you'll see a full website link, or URL, from a persons youtube video and the VideoID is in the rectangle highlighted.
  
  <img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-9178" title="Youtube video_id_position" src="http://zackcovell.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/video_id_position.jpg" alt="Youtube video_id_position" height="321" width="500">
  
  Now what to replace. The goal here is to get your own youtube embedded videos to play and not popup to youtube so you take the code below and replace the part of the code after the v/ and before the & symbol with a different and new VideoID from the Youtube video that YOU want to embed on your blog or webpage. e.g. go to the Youtube video that you want and "REPLACE" the VideoID in the code below with the VideoID of the video from Youtube that you wish to embed. …and you're done!
  
  Grab the Code here
  
  If you still need help gimme a call or email me. See my about page for contact details.
  
  Zack
  
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Grethel

on 10th Oct, 10 09:10pm

Hey Zack

I am trying to do this is Dreamweaver and when I paste the code and then view the browser, it displays a blank box with a little grey jigsaw inside and it says " The required plugin is not installed" I am viewing the page in google chrome…..Can you please help me figure out what I'm doing wrong? I tried and tried again, but failed .

Thank you for sharing your know-how with us. Even if I don't get this working, thank you anyways <3

I am very new to the world of CSS so be gentle, hehe :O

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- Zack Covell
  
  on 10th Oct, 10 10:10pm
  
  UPDATE:
  
  Grab the Code here
  
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Grethel

on 11th Oct, 10 10:10am

Hooray!
It's working now, you are superb, This will come in handy for my new website!
Thank you so much.

Hey, is that your baby? He/She is too cute..what a little bundle of joy <3

gracias & take care

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- Zack Covell
  
  on 11th Oct, 10 02:10pm
  
  Excellent.
  
  I was going to make a video for you to follow, but when I tried to use the original youtube code myself in Dreamweaver I also noticed it wasn't working at all.
  
  So again, Grethel, thanks for asking and making this post improve.
  
  The little guy in the picture is my nephew, we just celebrated his 1st birthday not too long ago. It was great.
  
  Muchas Gracias and Namaste to you my new friend.
  
  Zack
  
  P.S. Since you are just learning code stuff I'd like to give you the following code which looks like the blackberry phone with an embedded video inside. Now you can embed ANY VIDEO inside this and the background image will be the blackberry or any other image you'd like.
  
  Grab the Code Here
  
  and it will look like the video on this page
  
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Grethel

on 12th Oct, 10 10:10am

Well your nephew is too cute, congrats on the new member of the family! I'm the youngest so I always wanted to have a little baby brother or sister no fair!

about your site, I'm glad to be able to help out, again thank you for sharing your knowledge with us!!

and I'm going to try out the code you gave me so I'll post back to let you know how it looks

A million thanks for your insight <3

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- Zack Covell
  
  on 13th Oct, 10 01:10pm
  
  Thanks very much for staying in touch here.
  
  I look forward to helping more people figure out how to enjoy their time and still be social.
  
  Zack
  
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Bladeclaw

on 2nd Jan, 11 12:01am

I seen someone do this before and be able to change their youtube thumbnail to someone elses thumbnail. I forgot how they did it and can't find information about it. See if you can find out who someone can run off of someone elses thumbnails. It would be effective if you can make a youtube account with just your own thumbnail pictures and run off of them.

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Dave H

on 10th Mar, 11 12:03am

or you could simply add “&version=3″ to the youtube file ID as per the youtube API. . . which far simpler indeed. . . .

try this:

it is from youtube API sample, so it should be official supported important is &version=3

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