YouTube on Your Site

Whatever presence you have on the Internet—a large website, a blog, a social network page, or pretty much anything else—there are many ways to integrate YouTube into it. From simple video embeds to our full-powered APIs, you can integrate video at all levels of technical expertise.

Bringing YouTube to your site is more than just adding some of the millions of videos available on YouTube. It keeps your visitors interested and allows self-expression and interaction with one of their favorite services. And it brings your site, blog, or page into the YouTube video community—an international network of users, creators, and sites connected through the Web's largest collection of online videos.

We've highlighted some typical ways of integrating video content below—just click the arrow next to the question to get the answer. If you have any questions or suggestions, or projects that you would like us to know about, please leave a post at the Developer Forum.

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The Basics

How do I add a video to my blog or web page?

1. You'll need to edit the HTML of your blog entry or page—this should be relatively straightforward. In Blogger, for example, just click the "Edit HTML" tab.
2. Next, go to the video that you want, and look for the 'Embed' box in the "About This Video" section. Copying the HTML code that's there into your website will create an embedded player; the video will play within your site when the user clicks on the 'Play' button.
3. You can resize the player by editing the object width="425" and height="350" fields at both the beginning and end of the embedded player code. Make sure that the sizes you choose have the same ratio as the default numbers, so that the video doesn't get stretched—just multiply the width by 0.8235 to get the height.

How do I add a playlist to my blog or web page?

To show a selection of videos that is easily editable, embed a playlist. When you update the playlist on YouTube, the playlist on your site will update as well. This is a good way of creating longer stories through a series of videos, or simply giving your readers more pre-selected content to watch.

1. To create a playlist, go to the My Playlists page, click 'Create a Playlist' and fill out the information.
2. As you find videos you like on YouTube, click 'Add to Playlist' under the player to add them to your list. You can change the order of the videos in your playlist by returning to the 'My Playlist' page.
3. The easiest way to embed a playlist is to create a custom player. Go to your YouTube account and click "Custom Video Players", then "Create Custom Player". Select a color and format for your player, and then choose what is going to play in it—you can choose a playlist, your own uploaded content, or your favorites—and then click the "Generate Code" button.
4. Copy and paste the code into your blog entry or web page, just as you did with the embedded video above.

How do I add a video to my social network page?

Adding videos to your profiles on social networks like MySpace and Facebook is a great way to share your videos or favorites with friends. Or, if you're promoting something (like your band) on MySpace, videos will help attract visitors to your page, who can then then share the link with their friends. The social network sites have similar ways to add videos, so we'll use MySpace as an example.

1. Sign in to your MySpace profile, then click the "Edit Profile" button.
2. Next, go to the video that you want, and look for the 'Embed' box in the "About This Video" section. Copying the HTML code that's there into your website will create an embedded player.
3. You can resize the player by editing the object width="425" and height="350" fields at both the beginning and end of the embedded player code. Make sure that the sizes you choose have the same ratio as the default numbers, so that the video doesn't get stretched—just multiply the width by 0.8235 to get the height.
4. Click "Preview", and then "Submit".

Blip.fm Adds YouTube Videos - Yea for the DJs, How to Network and DJ at YouTube

Social music site Blip.fm added YouTube videos to its music feed today, allowing users to turn its “Twitter for music” service into a social video playlisting site. The free service, which allows users to listen to songs and share them in playlists that resemble Twitter’s interface, now includes a window for watching videos as the songs play. It’s a sort of on-demand, social MTV — at least one that’s reminiscent of the era when MTV actually played music videos.

The move also beefs up Blip.fm’s audio content offering for U.S. users, although recent changes to its content library have left some international users with fewer songs from which to choose. Blip.fm recently began sourcing songs via Imeem but eliminated content from MP3 search engine Skreemr, which scraped the web for songs wherever they were lying around. While that’s generally a boon to U.S. users, many international listeners have reported that their full songs have been replaced by frustrating 30-second clips.
What does this mean for US, the Blip.fm Dj's?
Now you have access to full length, beautiful versions of the songs you blip! But you won't find them all searching on Blip: try searching from YouTube and then carefully copy entire youtube title into blip search.
NOW YOU CAN DJ AT YOUTUBE TOO!
Sign in to YouTube with your Google account and use the PLAYLISTS feature on your profile to collect and sort your Blip Playlist at YouTube.
Still don't get it? Two ways to add your Blip playlist to YouTube:
1. Set up your YouTube profile page and log in. In a seperate window open Blip.
When you see a song with a video you like AT BLIP click the youtube logo in the lower right hand corner of the video. This will take you to homepage of the video at YouTube. Underneath the video you will be able to add it to YOUR YouTube PAGE.
Choose Favorites and or choose playlists and create one on the spot such as SOUL Music or Love Songs....You can then add others to the catagory!
2. Search YouTube for your Blip songs and add them to your YT profile page.
These pages can be customized and I LOVE Mine
see what you can do MINE
Networking at YouTube
You don't have to upload videos at YT to network...Blip DJs are going to dominate YouTube just as they have taken Twitter by Storm!
When you find a song/video you like click the subscribe button and let the person know you have added the video to your playlist in comments.