Remember dear friends
Seek out love and compassion
Flow through you and out
Day: April 13, 2016
Fixing Youtube “Embedding disabled by request”
So, one of my team’s videos was showing this error: “embedding disabled by request”. I have no idea how that setting got changed, as I simply uploaded it and then tried to embed it into our website.
As you’d expect, this was obnoxious. Finding the solution was a bit annoying, too, as the most recent post I found, from 2009, Which, as you might expect, wasn’t helpful. However, I did get it figured out.
- Go to www.YouTube.com/my_videos. This will give you the master list of all your videos.
- Skim through to the video in question, click “Edit”.
- Go to “Advanced Settings”
- Scroll down to “Distribution Options” & Click Allow Embedding”
The Ever Changing World Of Social Media
Was just reading this piece over at Business Insider: Teens are ditching Instagram for Snapchat at a stunning rate. Well, this reinforces one of my underlying assumptions: that what we’ve currently labeled “social media” is a highly unstable sector.
So, we see that Twitter is falling in relevance; that’s been prognosticated about forever. And the same with the Facebook and it’s sidekick Instagram. But we’re seeing growth with Snapchat. Again, the focus of this article is teens, but I expect they’ll be the leading edge of social media trends.
They have two graphs that really capture things:
And this guy, which I think is more telling:
So, the world is shifting and shifting rapidly. It’ll be good to dive into Snapchat, if you’re not already there.