When I posted a YouTube video on Mashable yesterday morning it looked one way. By the time I went to sleep, it looked different.
I never know what to expect or how my videos will look.
Justin Leon
· 10 months ago
Its so ugly. Youtube fails at design again.
varghese
· 10 months ago
Totally uncalled for and is nothing but a way to get users to view the video in you tube and not in the place where the embedded video is.
I kept viewing videos [embedded on the site] and felt like clicking the title so many times that i did finally wind up doing so and landed on you tube...
Would have been better if it was placed elsewhere....
Geoff
· 10 months ago
Just a quick note: If you want to disable this new feature you can append "&showinfo=0" to the player url in the embed code.
The documentation is here, along with other parameters you can use:
HI Geoff, is it possible to prevent the 'related' vids from coming up on your site at the end of your own embedded video?
thanks
Andrew Warner
· 10 months ago
@Geoff, that's a VERY helpful comment. Thanks.
The bigger issue though is the unpredictability of the embeds. You never know what your site will look like because they change the layout AFTER you embed it on your site.
Buns and Chou Chou
· 10 months ago
Saw this today and were wondering what's up. Now we have our answer. That's why we read you...now we don't have to go hopping all over their site to figure it out. Yeah!
David
· 10 months ago
Thanks Geoff, very helpful.
jim
· 10 months ago
Who was the genius who came up with this? Google is slowly morphing into AOL. I hope they wake up in time.
Craig
· 10 months ago
I just noticed that, don't really like it either, takes up space and is not necessary.
seedee
· 10 months ago
I think this is annoying. I do live after a the KISS principle and I don't like this :(
roland hachmann
· 10 months ago
ooooh, I don't like it! Who needs that anyway? There is no apparent benefit, as far as I am concerned. I don't care about the rating, and when inserting videos into my blogposts, I add the title most of the time anyway.
Mantas
· 10 months ago
Looks absolutely horrible. Thanks Geoff for the tip how to turn it off manually.
Google is heading in the wrong direction...
alchemy
· 10 months ago
Embedded ads are a HUGE issue on You Tube. It may be ugly, but it's a step in the right direction.
indica
· 10 months ago
The title is so ugly. It ruins the appearance of my web page, it is so unnecessary.
Doug
· 10 months ago
Count me among the naysayers. It completely ruins the aestetic of my webpage. Geoff, I tried inserting the "&showinfo=0" into my code, but it didn't work. Can someone show me an example of exactly where to place it? But even if this works, do I have to then go back through ALL of the videos I have already embedded and change the code to get rid of the titles? I noticed that now you can customize your YouTube embed code by adding a border, changing the size or color and even NOT including related videos, so why can't they let you choose to delete the title also? IF IT AIN'T BROKE, DON'T FIX IT!
Thanks for the tip, Geoff. I noticed the titles and ratings the other day. I post music videos on my site, so the ratings can be quite helpful. However, as most people here have pointed out, they are ugly.
The other issue I have is that my embedded videos are scaled down to around 300px X 300px. At this size, the text and rating stars are MASSIVE. Thanks to Geoff;s tip, I think I'll remove them for now.
Clare Swindlehurst
· 10 months ago
@Steve Nimmons - they already do push ads in embedded vids - see the vid at the bottom of this page:http://www.clareswindlehurst.com/disneyworld/2009/01/24/american-idol-experience-update/
good to know how to remove the titles.
Doug
· 10 months ago
Thanks, David. It's working fine now. It would be great if they would add that option to their custumization scheme.
chito
· 10 months ago
Who cares you guys are boring ok.
jp
· 10 months ago
The trouble with captions is they contrast or even conflict with the more creative caption you may have written for the header of your blog post. It's like a newpaper where every story has 2 different captions and 2 caption writers with different ideas...less impact, bad idea...
alexander alaric
· 10 months ago
I like the direction it shows youtube heading in. Use their platform and add more functionality to it for users off site.
Your idea about allowing ratings and comments off site would be great. The way to get around 'losing' page views on youtube is to have the ads embedded in the video where youtube shares revenue with site publishers...similar to adsense.
Lonely Lover
· 10 months ago
i really think they coulda made these titles / ratings look better. looks kinda like 1998 to me...
Freehill Media Web Design
· 9 months ago
I actually don't mind the YouTube Player GUI
Vicki
· 3 months ago
I am embedding a youtube video on my website homepage. Is there a way of taking off the inframe title that appears on the video as it does not look consistent with the font on the rest fof the site. Probably a no but wanted to ask anyway Thanks Vicki
All Comments
I never know what to expect or how my videos will look.
I kept viewing videos [embedded on the site] and felt like clicking the title so many times that i did finally wind up doing so and landed on you tube...
Would have been better if it was placed elsewhere....
The documentation is here, along with other parameters you can use:
http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/player_para...
thanks
The bigger issue though is the unpredictability of the embeds. You never know what your site will look like because they change the layout AFTER you embed it on your site.
Google is heading in the wrong direction...
The other issue I have is that my embedded videos are scaled down to around 300px X 300px. At this size, the text and rating stars are MASSIVE. Thanks to Geoff;s tip, I think I'll remove them for now.
good to know how to remove the titles.
Your idea about allowing ratings and comments off site would be great. The way to get around 'losing' page views on youtube is to have the ads embedded in the video where youtube shares revenue with site publishers...similar to adsense.