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Welcome to EdTechHustle, my name is Rich and today I'm going to show you how you
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can embed a YouTube video inside an email. Well, kind of. Let me explain. So
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I've had this problem for a long time. This is an email that I wrote and I want
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to share one of the videos on my channel with a colleague. So this is the video
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that I want to share. Now what I would like to do is embed the video directly
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inside the body of this email message, but that option technically doesn't
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exist inside Outlook. So what you're left to do is to kind of just paste the link
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kind of like that. It's there. I did bold this text and put an icon right here. So
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hopefully that person will watch the video. Other times when I paste the link
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Outlook will sometimes convert this into a preview at the bottom, which is better
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than just the the plain hyperlink text, but it's still not as good as embedding
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it in the body of the email. But again I want to embed the video inside the body
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of this email and there's no way to do it. Until now. Let me show you one work
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around that you can kind of create the appearance of embedding a video into a
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message. So the first thing you'll have to do is go to whatever video you want
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to share. So in this case it's this one on the screen about magic school that AI
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We're going to select share, but this time I'm not going to copy the hyperlink
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Instead I'm going to choose this option that says embed. Okay now this embedded
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video text is right over here. This code we're just going to ignore that. What I'm
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now going to do is use some kind of program that will let me take a
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screenshot of just this video right over here. So I'm on a Mac. I'm going to use
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preview, but if you're on a Windows computer you can use the snipping tool
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Another product is Snagit which works really well. But let me go ahead and just
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take a snip of this video. And I am just going to take a snip of just this video
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right over here. Okay now I have it. I do have to copy this. If you're using the
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snipping tool it should automatically copy to your clipboard. So that's step
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number two. Okay so now what I'm going to do I'm going to go to the spot in my
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email where I want to embed the video. I'm just going to paste that image right
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inside the body. Maybe make this a little smaller kind of like that. Okay so this
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looks almost identical to how it would look if I had the ability to embed
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the message. So the last step for me to do is now to link this video to this
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image. Okay to do that I'm going to select share. This time I'm going to copy
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the URL to the video. I'm going to go back to my email. I'm going to select the
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video and I'll navigate up to the top where you see the link button. I'm going
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to insert a hyperlink. Okay you can see that it is displaying as that image. I'm
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going to go ahead and paste the URL to the video and click OK. Well it looks
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like I pasted that link directly inside here. Now you'll notice that when I click
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on that image the cursor changes to an arrow to this icon to tell me that this
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image is hyperlinked. This is what the email is going to look like when the
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recipient opens it. You can see my text is here. Here is the video. It looks just
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like an embedded video but the difference is now when I hover my mouse
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over it it will open in a new window. If I click that in a new tab that video
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there we go that video is now open in a brand new tab inside whatever default
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that user has. So again it looks just like an embedded video. The difference is
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it's just an image that's hyperlinked. Again there's no way to embed a video
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inside Outlook but at least this way might be helpful for you when writing an
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email. So I hope this video has been helpful. If you have any questions please
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feel free to leave them inside the comment section below
