4 New Ways to Embed Video
We’ve noticed that video embedding is mighty popular among WordPress.com bloggers. For example, there are over 3,000 YouTube videos embedded into new blog posts around here every day!
To add to the fun, we’ve added support for 4 additional video players:
DailyMotion: There was a petition for us to add DailyMotion support, so we got right on it. Embedding instructions are here, you can also post to your WordPress.com blog directly from the DailyMotion player by using their “blog this video” feature.
SplashCast: Splashcast is a brand new player that lets you combine video, music, photos and text. Embedding instructions are here, posting from their site directly to your blog is coming soon.
LiveVideo: LiveVideo is a rapidly growing video sharing site and we now support embedding of their player, as well as posting to your wp.com blog from their player.
PodTech: Last but not least, PodTech offers videos and podcasts on all kinds of tech topics. Embedding instructions are here.
Posted: Monday, February 5th, 2007 at 2:36 am. Filed in Video.
Tags: DailyMotion, LiveVideo, PodTech, SplashCast
Feb 5th at 3:16 am
Awesome work, guys!
Feb 5th at 3:18 am
Excellent – I can’t wait to upload some knitting technique videos! Thanks – you guys are awesome!
Feb 5th at 3:40 am
Awesome stuff man.
Feb 5th at 4:02 am
Thanks!
Feb 5th at 4:16 am
Good news for me.
Thanks.
Feb 5th at 4:19 am
WOW! This is a great feature.
We can now embed Flickr slideshows via SplachCast.
Thanks WordPress!
Feb 5th at 4:27 am
Cool. More fun stuff for us to play with. Thanks Toni!
Feb 5th at 4:31 am
Ah! More support for other video sites!
Now our choices ain’t limited to YouTube!
Thanks!
Feb 5th at 4:43 am
Hi Toni,
Thanks, thanks, thanks!! The best keeps getting even better!
Best wishes to you and all the rest of thw WP.com staff.
Feb 5th at 4:45 am
Myspace is becoming an increasinly new medium for uploading it seems. Wanted to post a few superbowl commercials that were on there, but no such luck on here. Just a suggestion?
Feb 5th at 4:46 am
Good job!! Thankz.
Feb 5th at 4:55 am
You guys are awesome! Thanks.
Feb 5th at 5:03 am
How about allowing all embedding options so we can add more of the content on our blogs that we would like to? Jim
Feb 5th at 5:10 am
Cool, hope you guys add the ability to support different sizes of splashcasts soon.
This is my first splashcast:
http://engtech.wordpress.com/2007/01/30/getting-started-with-splashcast-on-wordpresscom/
Feb 5th at 5:14 am
Nice….. (i think)
Feb 5th at 5:15 am
Fantastic!! Thank you WP.
Feb 5th at 5:19 am
Cool!
Feb 5th at 5:29 am
Cool! Mucho thanks! WordPress is getting better and better! More power guys!
Feb 5th at 5:47 am
DailyMotion is a cool site.
P.s. I watch Prisonbreak there…
Feb 5th at 6:07 am
Thank you! I’ve been adding them and my listeners really enjoy them.
Megan
Feb 5th at 6:26 am
great! this is another way to embed video. thanks Toni!
Feb 5th at 6:48 am
Indeed, DailyMotion is getting very popular .. Good move !!!!
Feb 5th at 6:54 am
Wow thanx for the efforts. WordPress really rocks. If you are a blogger, you can’t miss being on wp. With more options of support for 4 new videos, we will be embedding more vidoes.
Feb 5th at 7:12 am
Awesomely cool. Whether this expression exists or not.
Feb 5th at 7:14 am
great!!! i wanna post Yahoo Video also. Thanks..
Feb 5th at 8:06 am
Very nice development. Thank you.
Feb 5th at 8:44 am
A very good news!
Blogs on WP.COM are becoming the most interesting and rich on the internet!
Feb 5th at 8:45 am
Nice. Thanks!
Feb 5th at 8:47 am
uoooo very nice!! thanks guys!
Feb 5th at 9:11 am
Excellent feature, as always.
Feb 5th at 9:11 am
How do you guys manage to do all this? I am not a great video embedding fan but this sounds impressive. Its like every month one wonders: what is the next surprise? Ofcourse so far the best surprise I got is the one about the clicks.
Feb 5th at 9:23 am
Don’t forget Twango and vpod.tv !
Feb 5th at 9:41 am
very very very
gooooooooood
ways !!!
Feb 5th at 10:27 am
Cool!! Now we have more reasons to post videos!
Feb 5th at 10:43 am
Would be great if you added Sevenload to the list. Sevenload is a German video and photohosting platform.
Feb 5th at 10:51 am
Which is great, but any idea what the legal situation is re those videos?
Feb 5th at 11:05 am
Feb 5th at 11:35 am
but i cannot even embed the youtube too
how can i get about doing the above
Feb 5th at 12:13 pm
Any plans on integrating Soapbox?
Feb 5th at 12:33 pm
awesome.
Feb 5th at 1:13 pm
Things just keep gettin’ better here. You guys should go to Mexcio more often
Thanks for the great service!
Feb 5th at 1:45 pm
Great, guys. Not a surprising, but a good stuff.
Feb 5th at 2:14 pm
The more, the merrier!
Is there any chance that you might support embed videos from Sapo Video, a portuguese video service (http://videos.sapo.pt)?
Either way, keep up the good work on providing the best blog supporting plataform on the Web.!
Feb 5th at 2:14 pm
Thanks a ton..
Feb 5th at 2:22 pm
Cool… Thanks. \m/
Feb 5th at 2:29 pm
Even though I’ve only heard of one of those, I’m glad there’s a way to use them on my blog if the need arises!
Thanks, folks.
Feb 5th at 2:53 pm
Now that’s pretty awesome. I love embedding videos.
Feb 5th at 3:23 pm
I have not been able to successfully embed my YT videos. My blog is not personally hosted so if possible, could someone contact me and let me know what is up?
Feb 5th at 3:26 pm
you are amazing! All we need now is a few more themes. preferably 2 columns with a wider layout. why is it that they always get designed so thin? i dont geddit!
Feb 5th at 3:31 pm
Wow, thanks, embedmania!
Feb 5th at 3:33 pm
AWESOME!!!!!
Thanks so much y’all!!!
Y’all are doing such an awesome job with WordPress, thank you!!!
Feb 5th at 4:17 pm
WOW!!!I have to check these out! Thanks guys!
Feb 5th at 4:20 pm
How about embedding the Grapheine Bombay TV (and rest of) films?
Feb 5th at 5:30 pm
Very cool. I am looking forward to testing out the new options!
Feb 5th at 5:34 pm
This is great! Thanks! I would love to see Veoh added as well if you decide to add more!
Feb 5th at 5:47 pm
Thanks
Feb 5th at 5:58 pm
’4 New Ways to Embed Video’, sounds just another sentence of interest as I read through. But one needs to appreciate the amount of effort and hard work that goes into the making-of-this-possibility. Its good to see, that from the time WORDPRESS has come around, it has always strived and tried to give a clear-cut view of blogging to many of its apprentices.
Keep up the good work. My best wishes to you and your Team of dedicated personnel.
Allan
http://allanfernandes.wordpress.com
Feb 5th at 6:00 pm
Hey, thanks! More info. for my tech-deficient brain to try to process.
Maybe you need to have a FAQFD (Frequently Asked Questions For Dummies) section. I think I read the FAQ just about everyday–only I have FAQ about the FAQ.
Feb 5th at 6:05 pm
oooh, daily motion! yay!
you guys rock, i knew it was only a matter of time. ^^
Feb 5th at 6:09 pm
Hi this might be a more local interest, but could You try how to embed video clips directly from http://sevenload.de (a german video clip portal, in a similar style as YouTube, but featuring also pictures) and *psst it is much more comfortable to use, has more cool features and is even miles better than the performance of YT
As announced this might concern just a little group of people but in germany it is a quite popular thing. Many of the german bloggers – I would assert – are using it (even if the most host their blog on personal webspace and use PlugIns for that reason and won´t need).
It would make many things to me, more comfortable and easy-2-use…
Anyway, also the state of art is very high level, first class and top supporting throughout the WordPress User Community!
Thanks for that great job!
MIC http://unintendedpurpose.wordpress.com
Feb 5th at 8:24 pm
Cool thanks!
Feb 5th at 8:32 pm
Great job, guys! Now on to the other 2000 services!
Feb 5th at 9:23 pm
I haven’t heard of some of these – hooray, new things to try out!
Feb 5th at 9:31 pm
Thank you!
Feb 5th at 10:39 pm
Love options! Keep em’ coming!
Feb 5th at 11:27 pm
This is awesome, thanks guys!!!
Feb 5th at 11:58 pm
Thanks
Feb 6th at 1:00 am
I also have a few more to reccommend: Soapbox from MSN is pretty good to and i need some help for my site and thexboxdomain with gametrailers embeddings.
Feb 6th at 1:01 am
Interesting. I don’t post videos that often, but thanks for the support!
Feb 6th at 1:22 am
YEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSS!
Feb 6th at 1:52 am
yea?
Feb 6th at 2:43 am
Thanks for the DailyMotion support. I love how that site has a larger, better quality stream than YouTube, now I have more reasons to use it more.
Feb 6th at 3:56 am
SplashCast ROCKS.
I now have it all over my site.
Great for posting Flickr Slideshows and YouTube video as it makes a smaller video player.
Feb 6th at 5:37 am
thanks, that’s great!
but I use http://www.sevenload.com, it’s great!
also a rapidly growing video and photo sharing site,
could You also allow to insert videos from this site???
Feb 6th at 5:56 am
Merci pour DailyMotion, c’est vraiment cool
Feb 6th at 7:02 am
great news… makes me want to put up some old bettie page stag films
Feb 6th at 7:09 am
Thank you guyz, that was what we missed much on wp!!
Feb 6th at 9:41 am
Feb 6th at 2:37 pm
I think the last comment I made was something about not being able to see how WP could get any better. Wrong again this time in a good way. Great work guys and galls, cant wait to play with my new toys.
Feb 6th at 4:08 pm
Can we get a version of Gametrailers player to work on wordpress?
Theres a whole load of games blogs here that would love that support.
All the best,
Kerri
Feb 6th at 5:53 pm
cool dee la!!!!
Feb 6th at 6:13 pm
WOHO!! This is just what I needed.. Now I can publish my company videos.. This is sooo cool! Keep up the good work guys.
Feb 6th at 6:24 pm
Do I need to add to the long long list of thanks?? “Good show, WP, Keep the Customer Delight Quotient stratospherically high! You weaned my away from blogger in 15 seconds
”
Feb 6th at 6:53 pm
Awesome possum!!
I will have to check out the sites added, thanks for the work WP.
ps. I agree with Kerri, Gametrailers (gamevideos.com) would be a great addition as well.
Feb 6th at 6:58 pm
never heard of these sites except for dailymotion.
where the hell is msnsoapbox support and xboxlive gamertag widget. u guys anti microsoft or something?
Feb 6th at 6:59 pm
oh and i support that kerri person, gametrailers.com videos would be a nice addition.
Feb 6th at 8:56 pm
well, i’m going to still saying the smae thing why we can’t embed music from Goear http://www.goear.com it’s a great idea guys think about it
Feb 6th at 10:21 pm
Wow…thanks guys. Another new way for us to express ourselves
Thanks.
Feb 7th at 4:09 am
thx guys!
Feb 7th at 2:57 pm
That’s greate, thank you guy for always giving us more options.