Something happened recently, and now it is only posting a link to youtube rather than placing the video directly onto your page, at least when you try to share it, or copy the link there. Anyone know how to put the actual video back on there? The link is annoying.
Does it post the thumbnail and description when you post the link? I didn't notice a change specifically... before it would just play directly on Facebook if clicked?
Finally found the answer. If you post a video as a post it will only post a link to it. It will, however, play the video directly if you post it as a comment.
Facebook is doing this intentionally on status updates for their "Fake News" machine learning. Because status updates can be shared and spread, but comments can't be shared.
It's time for the girls to find a better website. They did it when they got tired of myspace. There is far too much propaganda and ads these days. Men will always follow.
I mean, you can still share the link. The obvious difference between running the video as embedded (like with comments) vs clicking a link (or link "poster" image) that takes you to youtube to play it, is the YT ads play when you go to their site. Are you sure this isn't just YT and Facebook having an agreement to send ppl to youtube, and Facebook gets some referral revenue for it? fwiw: twitter still plays the YT links as embedded.
The difference is the video loads and is viewed off of their site, which helps them offload responsibility.
I know, but viewing at Youtube increases YT's revenue for ad views, right? So, Youtube might have offered them referral revenue, or made them do it. Did you make this up as their reason, or have they stated this, and why hasn't Twitter followed suit, yet?
Because Twitter isn't Facebook, and Twitter wasn't front and center in the Cambridge Analytica scandal and have their CEO testify in front of congress. You realize they are two different companies with two different products, right? The change occurred at the same time that Facebook made their pledge in response to Cambridge Analytica. At the same time Facebook made several changes to their platform, including changes to the sharing and aggregation algorithms. Also, YouTube and Facebook are direct competitors that rarely get along. Google would benefit very little from a deal with Facebook for embedded content, they actually prefer you visit their site. All of this is pretty common knowledge in the world of SEO and brand engagement. .
Dude, I know all that. I also know YT upped their ad game by increasing ads playing in their videos, which started roughly the same time, no? I'm not saying you're wrong, but until you provide FB statements about this, you seem to be making assumptions. Still seems much more likely this is a business decision based upon revenue....either from YT or FB...or both. Which is all the more reason the driver was business revenue decision... ie., maybe YT forced it to gain more ad views. That's exactly what I said. YT benefits from driving users to their site. In a *very* tangible way ... the ads run.
YouTube's embed link allows you to embed the video to any site you'd like, as long as that video's privacy settings allows for embedded replay. The NFL would be the biggest example of a brand that doesn't allow embedded replay. The power to control embed playback, relies on the content owner, not YouTube. Ads can still play on embedded videos. Ads on embedded videos Embedded videos may show In-stream and InVideo overlay ads. Any website that embeds videos, including your own website, may generate revenue for you. Enable or disable ads on embedded videos You will automatically be opted into showing ads on embedded videos if you've associated your YouTube and AdSense accounts and have enabled your videos for embedding. Note that embedded videos will honor the same ad enablement settings as videos on youtube.com. If you don't want to show ads on your embedded videos, there is no way to directly disable ads on just embedded videos, however, you may disable your videos for embedding altogether. This was a change on Facebook, not YouTube. Facebook would rather videos be hosted on their service, so they can control the content, and the revenue. I would imagine the video hosting metrics on Facebook skyrocketed after this change.
