Promote your university’s YouTube channel to potential subscribers in 2 easy steps

February 2nd, 2009 Karine Joly 4 Comments

I have no clue when this new feature was implemented by YouTube, but it’s now possible to embed a YouTube channel on any web page, but just grabbing a piece of code (as you would with any YouTube videos or playlists).

Here’s a quick visual demo of the 2 steps using Duke University’s YouTube channel as an example:

Step #1: Locate and grab the “embed this channel” code

Step #2: Paste the code on your web page (or blog post) and here’s the result:

4 Responses

1. Matthew Levy says:

   2/2/2009 at 3:51 pm

   This tip was great – I don’t know if the channel embed is new or we just collectively missed this. My only wish is that you could control the width – 320px is a bit wide for a sidebar-type widget.

2. Karine Joly says:

   2/2/2009 at 9:26 pm

   I haven’t tried yet, but a quick look at the code shows width and height parametrers, so it might be possible to resize them.

   Have you tried without avail?

3. Erik says:

   2/3/2009 at 12:00 am

   You can change the width and height parameters, but the content in the box doesn’t resize accordingly – it just gets cut off.

   Example: http://www.erikhagen.net/resources/channel.html

   Nice feature, but boo on that.

4. Karine Joly says:

   2/3/2009 at 9:57 am

   Thanks for testing it, Erik!

   Hopefully, they will fix that soon.