Add a video

When you’re done, the email shows the video’s picture with a play button on it. A reader taps it and the video opens on YouTube or Vimeo.

An email can’t play a video inside it, so this is how every email tool does video. You don’t upload a file; you link to a video that’s already online.

These steps are for every email you create. For an email that opens in the earlier editor, see the last section.

1. Point at a block and select the + at its top or bottom edge. The tray opens.
2. Pick the Videos tile, then select its one card: a video on its own.
3. Under Link, paste your video’s address and press Enter. A YouTube or Vimeo link brings the video’s picture, with a play button on it.

The whole walk, with what to do when the picture doesn’t arrive, is in Add a video on its own.

A video with a headline and a button

1. Select a +, pick the Intros tile, and choose one of the three cards under the heading Episodes and videos.
2. Select its picture. Put the video’s address in the box under Link, and press Enter.

A tap on the picture then opens the video, and a YouTube or Vimeo link brings the video’s own picture. See Link a video layout to your video.

In an email that opens in the earlier editor

There, the Video tile in the tray adds a Video block.

1. Hover the line between two blocks and select +. The block tray opens.
2. Select Video. The block appears with a spot that reads Your video goes here, and the panel reads Block › Video.
3. Under Source, paste the video’s link into the box under Video URL. Any YouTube or Vimeo link works. A short youtu.be link changes to the full youtube.com address.
4. Press Enter or select elsewhere. In the editor, a YouTube video shows its picture with a play button. A Vimeo video keeps the placeholder in the editor. Jounce fetches the video’s picture when you send.

A link the box doesn’t recognize gets Paste a YouTube or Vimeo link under it. The email won’t send until it’s fixed. Copy the link from the video’s own page rather than from a playlist or a channel. See Why doesn’t my video play in the email?.

Once the link is in, Link actions appears under the box. There, a tap on the video can add the reader to a segment. The rest of the panel, corners and a description, is in The Video block.

Next step

Check the picture and its play button as readers see them: Preview your email.