topic Re: How do I get my YouTube video to autoplay when my page loads? in CMS Development

How do I get my YouTube video to autoplay when my page loads?

kdmeg — Wed, 23 May 2018 13:25:31 GMT

Grab the embed code from the YouTube video to be added to your page:

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/evL5jaZx8vk" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Add "?rel=0&autoplay=1" after the URL in the embed code src:

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/evL5jaZx8vk?rel=0&autoplay=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Re: How do I get my YouTube video to autoplay when my page loads?

ecamu — Wed, 23 May 2018 14:03:56 GMT

This used to work beautifully but now it doesn't. Not on older landing pages or new one I make. Any ideas on what's wrong? Are there some new settings in Hubspot somewhere? I created a webpage on my website and used the same embed code and it worked perfectly. But on Hubspot landing pages it will not autoplay. Help is greatly appreciated!

Re: How do I get my YouTube video to autoplay when my page loads?

ecamu — Thu, 24 May 2018 12:57:20 GMT

Ok - after some research and troubleshooting - I've discovered that Google has changed their autoplay policy in Chrome to "improve the user experience."

https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/09/autoplay-policy-changes

I don't like it. But at least it still autoplays in Firefox and Edge/IE.

Re: How do I get my YouTube video to autoplay when my page loads?

toriworks — Thu, 27 May 2021 19:03:25 GMT

How does this work though when using the Video module? (not an embed code)

Re: How do I get my YouTube video to autoplay when my page loads?

KKnowles — Wed, 06 Oct 2021 22:42:02 GMT

Old thread but still relevant as I hit this issue today. If you set &mute=1 in your embed code, autoplay will work as expected.

Re: How do I get my YouTube video to autoplay when my page loads?

sidneyhaitoff — Thu, 07 Oct 2021 02:53:27 GMT

Only on desktop, but it's not working for me on mobile for some reason.

Re: How do I get my YouTube video to autoplay when my page loads?

sidneyhaitoff — Thu, 07 Oct 2021 02:55:04 GMT

And there's no option to unmute from mobile when the mute code is added to the embed code.

Re: How do I get my YouTube video to autoplay when my page loads?

ALeonard — Wed, 22 Dec 2021 20:52:58 GMT

Thanks @KKnowles! Your comment is what helped solve my issue.

The embed url that ended up working for me was src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/HCc0OUmmPd8?feature=oembed&autoplay=1&mute=1&cc_load_policy=1" which you can on our Content Marketing page.

Re: How do I get my YouTube video to autoplay when my page loads?

emildior — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 06:14:35 GMT

Since April 2018, Google made some changes to the Autoplay Policy. You not only need to add the autoplay=1 as a query param, but also add allow='autoplay' as an iframe's attribute

So while embed youtube video, you will have to do something like this: