How to add youtube video to facebook with play button?

blackstar

How to add a youtube video to my newsfeed which has a play button on it, so friends just need to click on the play button without leaving facebook to see the video?

I have clicked on share under the youtube video, then clicked on embeded, then copied the link, then added it to my facebook news feed. BUT it doesnt show the play button on the video after its posted and takes you off facebook onto youtube???? SOOOOOO annoying??? how can I fix this? thanks

Neil_Jones

You don't.  Its supposed to do that, its always done that.

flaneurs_lobster

What @Neil_Jones said. Facebook needs you on it's site in order to monetise your clicks. Google (YouTube) needs you on it's site for the same reason. That's why you get all this "free" stuff, but you have to suffer an extra click & window to do so.  

blackstar

Thanks all, still it wont work. Is there something wrong with this video I am trying to do it with?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=119&v=gcMtKvZpGWo&feature=emb_logo

Neil_Jones

Please read again what has already been posted.

blackstar

Ohh I see, its not meant to give you a play button to keep you on facebook.
But how come loads of others have youtube videos on their facebook posts with a play button which keeps you on facebook?

Neil_Jones

blackstar said:

Ohh I see, its not meant to give you a play button to keep you on facebook.
But how come loads of others have youtube videos on their facebook posts with a play button which keeps you on facebook?

"loads of others" doesn't really help.

Example?

If you mean something like this:

https://fb.watch/bzxjXAG-0Z/

Then that video (originally on YouTube) was uploaded to Facebook and is playing from Facebook servers, not YouTube.

pramsay13

flaneurs_lobster said:

What @Neil_Jones said. Facebook needs you on it's site in order to monetise your clicks. Google (YouTube) needs you on it's site for the same reason. That's why you get all this "free" stuff, but you have to suffer an extra click & window to do so.  

YouTube doesn't need you to be on their site. They are quite comfortable will allowing people to embed their videos on other websites as they are able to track who is watching the videos.

As others have said Facebook in their wisdom don't allow YouTube videos to be embedded, so you are just posting a link to send people to YouTube.