YouTube is perhaps the world’s best known and most popular video sharing platform, which is owned by Google.
We often recommend to use services like YouTube to host embedded video in order to save bandwidth costs, and also because the platform may encourage additional views outside of your website.
YouTube is free – as in beer – to post to and playback from.
If you are a WordPress publisher, YouTube videos are supported through native embeds, which means you may paste in a YouTube URL and this video will be embedded automatically, saving you much time, as well as bandwidth.
Are you looking for instructions on how to delete a video from YouTube? Maybe you haven’t been on the platform for a while, and all the controls have changed?! Whatever the reason, whether you uploaded a funny video of treasured cat which you would like to take offline, or if your old video now looks …
A lot of businesses are now using video as a means of communicating with clients and customers. We, at Silicon Dales, fully advocate this. It is a great way to reach out to clients in a way they enjoy. Not everyone has the time – or the will – to read through your company messages, …
Ever wanted to link to a specific time-point in a YouTube video? Well, you can, just by following the steps below, and link directly to a video, starting at the point you chose. Great for linking to TED Talks without the waffly intro part, or just to get to the clearest rendition of “all the …
2018 UPDATE – please note that the issue below is resolved in the latest versions of WordPress. Update to the latest version of WP and you should find video embeds work exactly as expected now. You can chalk this off your list 🙂 On WordPress blogs, there has for a number of versions been a …
