If the recipient of the message is using Gmail, as well as you, then it plays right in the Gmail window.

If I just copy/paste the video URL it does not show the video, only the link?

I would like the recipient of the email to be able to open and the video is there.
Is there a way to do this?

I have tested using an image of a video within the email and this works very well.

I would also recommend testing a screenshot of the youtube page linking directly to the youtube video. Just an idea.

There’s no need for anything fancy, just cut-and-paste the YT URL and you’re right, it’s not strictly necesary to segment the Gmail addresses.

The only reason we did it was to test “Scroll down to play Video” and then tell them in the video to “Click on the link above video.” I get a lot of “needlesly fancy” ideas like this but this one is bearing fruit wth the tests so far.

We did see a bump in sales (too few outings to make a conclusion yet) but more important, we noticed the TOPs (Time spent on page) was much higher after the call to action to watch the video in Gmail first.

Regs,

Lawrence

Great tip! If it is as simple as putting the YouTube link in the email, then there would probably be no need to segregate Gmail subscribers out of your list. You could send the same email to all and let Gmail do its thing.

But I’m guessing you actually have to send an HTML email and insert the YouTube embed code into that email. Is that correct?

Ryan

Thanks for sharing this tidbit of knowledge. I cannot wait
to do some testing of this with my clients.

Hrm… now, I wonder is it possible to isolate out just
Gmail customers to send these emails to? Perhaps that will depend
on the auto-responder service one uses?

Anyhow, thanks again for sharing

JC

No magic here.

You just cut-and-paste the YouTube link right into your email message.

Regs,

Lawrence

My sincere apologies for the typos. Just wanted to submit a quick comment.

And if you are wondering: 46.3 % of my target market wants the printed stuff.

Sincerely,

Stephan