Title: How to Embed a YouTube Video in PowerPoint (Step-by-Step)
Headings: How to Embed a YouTube Video in PowerPoint (Step-by-Step)
How to Embed a YouTube Video in PowerPoint (Step-by-Step)
YouTube Video Considerations
1. Which version of PowerPoint you are using?
2. Do you want the YouTube video’s entire playlist on your slide?
3. Do you need to trim your YouTube video?
PowerPoint 2019 (Office 365) Embed a YouTube Video
1. Find your YouTube video’s proper URL
WARNING: Get the right YouTube URL
2. Embed your YouTube video into PowerPoint
How to trim a YouTube video
PowerPoint 2013: Embed a YouTube video in PowerPoint
Warning: New YouTube Option
Method #1: Dedicated YouTube option
1. Search the YouTube dialog box
2. Resize the YouTube video to fit your screen
What about the playlist and other formatting options?
Method #2: Using the embed code
2. Navigate to the embed code
3. Choose how you want your video to play
4. Copy and Paste the Embed Code
PowerPoint 2010: Embed a YouTube video in PowerPoint
[Watch] Embed YouTube in PowerPoint 2010
1. Find your YouTube video
2. Navigate to the embed code
3. Choose how you want your video to play
4. Copy and paste the embed code
PowerPoint 2007: Embed a YouTube in PowerPoint
Warning: Compatibility Issues
Method #1: The Easy Way
[Watch] Embed YouTube in PowerPoint 2007
1. Download the free add-in
2. Extract the zipped file
3. Copy the PowerPoint add-in
4. Add the PowerPoint add-in
5. Navigate to YouTube and copy your video’s URL
The first step is to find your video on YouTube.
Warning: Get the right URL
6. Insert the YouTube video using the add-in
7. Resize the YouTube video
8. Launch the YouTube video
Method #2: The Hard Way
1. Add the Developer Tab to your ribbon
2. Insert a Shockwave file
Now we are ready to get our YouTube video
3. Find Your YouTube video’s URL
4. Open up the properties of your Shockwave ActiveX object
5. Adjust the YouTube URL within the dialog box
6. Run your presentation
Conclusion
What’s next?

Content: 2. Embed your YouTube video into PowerPoint
Once you have the CORRECT URL for your video, then you can insert it into PowerPoint
To embed a YouTube video in PowerPoint, simply: Navigate to the Insert tab
Select the Video drop down (within the Media group)
Choose Online Video
Where it says Enter the URL for the Online Video , Paste in (Ctrl + V) your URL
Click Insert
Clicking Insert, a message at the bottom of your screen will tell you the video is processing. Once it’s done, the video appears on your slide as you can see below
When using online videos like this, it’s important to properly cite your sources so you don’t get into legal trouble. To learn how to cite a YouTube video (and other online sources), read our citing guide here. Note: When you open a presentation with a video embedded from an online source like YouTube, you will see the following security warning. You need to select Enable Content before your video will play in PowerPoint
How to trim a YouTube video
Keeping in mind that you are limited in what you can do with online videos in PowerPoint (like YouTube videos), you can adjust the start time of your YouTube video. This allows you to start your YouTube video at a certain time within the video, so you can just show the most relevant part of the video that backs up your presentation. The trick to doing this is to adjust it BEFORE you copy the YouTube video’s URL.