Nowadays YouTube is a popular term among Internet users as they speak of online video sharing. Everyone use Internet knows what is YouTube due to its popularity as a video sharing website. If you are seeking for online videos, YouTube is the first brand name comes in to your mind. Isn't it? Videos uploaded on YouTube are easy to share among users and the best use for bloggers and webmasters is that YouTube videos can be easily embedded on their pages. However as we embed a video on a page, we expect visitors to click on the play control to start watching. But there can be some occasions where we need videos to be auto-play without any user response as they land on our pages. Don't we?
Autoplay - A Useful Feature?
If you are trying to promote products or services with introductory or promotional videos, you might be looking for a way to autoplay videos as and when visitors land on your pages instead of asking them to click and start the video. It's a simple example where you will need autoplay feature on videos. Generally, you should aware of the user experience as you deal with autoplay feature on videos. It's not like showing off an image. Videos can be very distracting if it's not a part of the reason your visitors land on your post or page.
If you believe the video you have on the page is the primary resource that visitors land on your page should look into, then autoplay would be the right choice for you in that scenario unless your page take long time to load. If you think of using autoplay on videos, below factors may help you to go for a better decision..
● If the video is just the addition to your primary content, you should not interrupt users by auto-playing the video, and let them have the choice to watch or ignore it when they come across your video.
● Don't apply autoplay on multiple videos on same page. That will definitely keep users away from your pages.
● Eventhough auto-playing is the best option for you, every visitor may not happy with it. So, make sure the video has player controls where they can stop the video and explore other content on the page.
If you believe the video you have on the page is the primary resource that visitors land on your page should look into, then autoplay would be the right choice for you in that scenario unless your page take long time to load. If you think of using autoplay on videos, below factors may help you to go for a better decision..
● If the video is just the addition to your primary content, you should not interrupt users by auto-playing the video, and let them have the choice to watch or ignore it when they come across your video.
● Don't apply autoplay on multiple videos on same page. That will definitely keep users away from your pages.
● Eventhough auto-playing is the best option for you, every visitor may not happy with it. So, make sure the video has player controls where they can stop the video and explore other content on the page.
Please Turn Autoplay ON
If you think it's the best option for you to promote or increase marketing effectiveness, or the primary resource that visitors should look into, then autoplay feature is for you. I couldn't reveal you that YouTube supports autoplay feature on their videos. In addition, it shows user controls when playing videos too. So users can stop the video if they don't need to look into that video. We have already learnt how to embed YouTube videos on a blog or website. Lately a visitor of my blog, Jonny Jonn, asked me a question on enabling autoplay for YouTube videos. As that question pops up, I thought of converting the answer into a blog post where majority of users can make use of it if they wanna autoplay their embedded YouTube videos too. Let's have a look and learn how to enable autoplay for the YouTube videos.
Steps:
1. First off, grab the embed code for your preferred YouTube video.
2. Now you just need to append autoplay parameter to the source video URL.
For example, assume the embed code for your preferred YouTube video is the one displayed below.
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ScNNfyq3d_w" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
Did you notice the highlighted part in that code snippet? It's the YouTube source video URL. Now let's append the autoplay parameter to video URL.
http://www.youtube.com/embed/ScNNfyq3d_w?autoplay=1
Did you get it? I'm sure you have clearly identified what happened over there. Take the video URL with appended autoplay parameter and replace original video source URL in the code snippet. Once it's replaced, the code snippet will reflect as below.
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ScNNfyq3d_w?autoplay=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
Now we have appended autoplay parameter and the YouTube video will start to autoplay without waiting for user response. I mean, user doesn't need to click play icon on the player to start playing video.
Enjoy :-)
