How to Start Playing YouTube Videos Automatically

Using YouTube videos on your blog and other web pages is extremely easy to do, saves time, saves your bandwidth and thus saves you money.

But what works best on an optin page, salesletter or affiliate promotional landing page when it comes to either making your visitor click the play button or having it start automatically? That is what testing is for in marketing. Marketing is not assuming. So don’t speculate; test. That is from Dr. Flint McGlaughlin of MarketingExperiments who will be at MarketingSherpa’s 4th annual Email Summit this March in Miami.

But how do you make it so embedded youtube videos start playing automatically when someone comes your page?

I’ve included the following video to show you how.

The short and sweet answer is to include &autoplay=1 to the end of the last youtube url in the flash code they give you to place on your site.

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hope that helps,.
big jason
P.S. See my other post on how to remove the search field and related videos from youtube videos.

[tags]youtube, video, social media[/tags]