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: New YouTube Option
Although the new YouTube option in PowerPoint simplifies the embedding process…you DO lose the capability to format your YouTube videos and/or embed an entire YouTube playlist. To format the appearance of the YouTube video in PowerPoint 2013 or to grab a playlist, you still need to use the old embed code method (the second method). I’ve covered both methods in the tutorials below. You’ll notice I used an image of a computer screen to frame the video and create a cool effect…just another tip for making your videos come to life! There are two methods for adding YouTube videos in PowerPoint: Method #1 – The dedicated YouTube option (simplest but least flexible)
Method #2 – Using the embed code (most flexible)
Although the words ‘embed code’ wig most people out, rest assured that you don’t need to know ANYTHING about coding to pull the second method off…YouTube does all of the hard work for you
Method #1: Dedicated YouTube option
1. Search the YouTube dialog box
Within PowerPoint, navigate to the Insert tab in the Ribbon, open the Video dropdown and select Online Video. Within the online video dialog box, go to the YouTube search box and type the name of the video you are searching for (in this case I’ve typed ‘breaking up your bullet points’), and then hit Enter. The dialog box searches YouTube and displays the video results.