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How to Embed YouTube Video in Outlook Email?

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Published By Deepmala Pandey
Published On October 28th, 2024
Reading Time 2 Minutes Reading
Category Outlook

Summary: Due to many security reasons you will not embed a YouTube video in an email message. But you will of course link the video to mail even make it much better by pasting an image of video as a teaser and then link. So that people can click on it and directly open video on YouTube in their browser. For example, in the case of the video titled how to search email files by date, folder & attachments? Finding a link to an image is convenient for users as they can easily access the content in full.
Follow these given steps to achieve this task smoothly:

For Outlook 2010 – Embed YouTube Video

Step 1.

Create an Image of Video” by Opening it on your web browser and clicking on “PrtScn” after that “open favorite image editor” like “photoshop or paint tool” to edit image and add a play button on image.

create an image of youtube video

Step 2. After creating the image attached in Microsoft Outlook Email message.

image attached in ms outlook

Note: Adding image in new email is easy if you take it in an html file format.

Step 3.

To Add link on video image first copy it from the share section of YouTube after that right click on image and then hyperlink”. “Paste the copied link” and then click on the “send” button to send an email.

click on send button

Conclusion

Embedding a YouTube video directly into Outlook is not an option because of security restrictions. However, a good alternative would be to add an image preview with a play button and the image linking to the video. This way, the emails remain secure and the recipients can easily access the video within the application. This easy and creative trick enhances the email, making it fun and interesting without putting much work into it.

Embed YouTube Video in Outlook Email

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