How to Embed a YouTube Video on Medium
2 ways to include YouTube videos in your Medium articles
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3 min readDec 18, 2019
Videos are a powerful tool to add some visual punch to your Medium articles. According to Renderforest, 45% of people watch more than an hour of video on YouTube or Facebook per week.
YouTube is one of — if not the — most popular video platform in the world. Five billion YouTube videos are watched every single day and a third of internet users are also YouTube viewers.
Being able to embed YouTube videos directly into your Medium articles is a great feature of the platform. Below is an example of what a YouTube embed looks like on Medium.
I’ll show you the two ways you can embed a YouTube video on Medium.
Option 1
- Go to the YouTube video you want to embed and find the Share button
- Copy the link.
- Paste the link into your Medium article and hit Enter.
