Indie's Tech Tips: YouTube Video Embedding Tricks in Substack

You can embed YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts and more with a simple link

Watch Indie walk through this post and add more context on this video, exclusively on Rumble!

When you make a YouTube livestream, you can embed that stream in a Substack with a simple link past, however the link created within YouTube Studio WILL NOT embed, because Substack doesn’t recognize something in it to embed. But we have a fix!

The 2 links below both go to the same place, but only one currently embeds (the 2nd one) due to this glitch, which we have made Substack aware of. (looking at you Mills Bakerlol)

• YouTube Studio URL version: https://youtube.com/live/uI2VlqlmvtA

• YouTube browser URL version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uI2VlqlmvtA

• copy/pasting the first link just pastes as text on the first one (from Studio)

but

• copy/pasting the 2nd one will actually embed the video in the post, so readers can either watch the stream right on Substack (while still giving you view count on YT) or they can still link to it on YouTube to comment/chat there.

What you need to do to embed a YouTube stream is:

1. copy/click the link in YT Studio

2. then click the link to view the upcoming stream in browser (or paste the live URL at the top of a new tab) and hit return/enter.

3. When the page loads, copy the link in the top of your browser - it’s different than the one in Studio

4. Paste the “browser” version of the link into Substack BODY (not the subheading) and it will embed.

Thank you to Podcast By George and Revolutionary Blackout for allowing me to help! Give them both a follow/subscription on here!

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