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Embed a YouTube video in your Empath Unite Campus feed

Learn how to embed a YouTube video in an Empath Unite Campus discussion post so members can watch it directly in the feed.

Campus Owners and content creators can add a YouTube video to a Text Post in their Campus Discussions. Members can play the video directly in the feed. You can upload a video you created or use an existing YouTube video that allows embedding.

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Jump to uploading to YouTube (3:45), copying the embed code (6:45), or adding the video to Unite (7:36).

Before you start, make sure Discussions are enabled for your Campus and you have permission to create a post there.

1. Upload your video to YouTube

If your video is already on YouTube and allows embedding, skip to step 2.

  1. On a computer, open YouTube Studio. Select Create → Upload videos and choose your video file.
  2. Add a title, fill in the required details, and add a description or thumbnail if you’d like.
  3. In Details, expand Show more and make sure Allow embedding is checked.
  4. In Visibility, choose Unlisted to keep the video off your channel’s Videos tab, or Public if you want people to discover it on YouTube. Choose Save or Publish as prompted, then wait until the video is playable on YouTube.

Who can watch? Anyone with the link to an unlisted video can watch it and share it outside your Campus. A private YouTube video requires separate access in YouTube, which Campus membership doesn’t grant. YouTube visibility settings

2. Copy the YouTube embed code
  1. Open the video’s watch page on YouTube. For a video you just uploaded, find it under Content in YouTube Studio and choose View on YouTube.
  2. Below the video, select Share → Embed.
  3. Select Copy to copy the full embed code. It starts with <iframe. You can set a starting point or change whether player controls appear before copying the code.
3. Add the video to your Campus Discussion
  1. In Empath Unite, open the Campus where you want to post and go to Discussions.
  2. Select Create → Text Post.
  3. In the post editor toolbar, select Embed and paste the full YouTube embed code into the embed field.
  4. When the video preview appears, select Save in the embed dialog.
  5. Add a post title and any text you want members to see. Select Publish.
  6. Open the published post in Discussions and press play to check that the video plays in the feed.
If you run into trouble
  • The post shows a link or no player. Return to YouTube and copy the full code from Share → Embed. Paste it into Unite’s Embed dialog.
  • YouTube doesn’t offer Embed, or the player says playback is unavailable. If you own the video, check that Allow embedding is on, that visibility is Unlisted or Public, and that the video plays on YouTube. If someone else owns it and has disabled embedding, use another video or share the YouTube link in the post so members can open it on YouTube. YouTube embedding help
  • You don’t see Discussion or Create. Check that Discussions are enabled for the Campus and that your account has permission to post there.
  • Send us a message at support@empathmsp.com