# YouTube Video Not Embedding

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/youtube-video-not-embedding/316910>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [July 17, 2024, 9:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/youtube-video-not-embedding/316910 "2024-07-17T21:19:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![safeharbor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7feea3/32.png) [@safeharbor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/safeharbor)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2024, 1:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/youtube-video-not-embedding/316910/10 "2024-07-18T01:21:48Z")

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It’s not a live link. Just a regular link with the following formats:

“[https://youtu.be/xxxxxxx](https://youtu.be/xxxxxxx)”

“[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxxxxxx](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxxxxxx)”

When I paste the link into our topic here it renders an image (looks like the thumbnail) but not the actual video to play. That’s a step better than what my community displays.

The video is unlisted, not private, as shown below.

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/b/b/6/bb6a0358863c382d77f9429f92ca4c9e4b9148f5.png)

My Discourse community is private. Will this have any effect on the embedded video functionality?

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I had made the Vimeo video public.

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