This article explains how to use the video block to feature a link to a YouTube or Vimeo video in your drag and drop campaigns.

Email servers typically are not fond of video and many servers tend to block videos that have been embedded in the content of a mailing. In addition to the dip in overall delivery rates, embedding a video in your email makes it nearly impossible to track who has watched it. To address this, we created the video block as an easy way to share video content in your email campaigns. So while you can't embed a video into an email, you can use the video block to feature a link to a YouTube or Vimeo video in a similar fashion.

	In This Article
	Adding a Video Block Video Settings Thumbnail and Play Button Video Properties Additional Resources

Adding a Video Block

1. Navigate to your Campaigns tab.
2. Open a saved drag and drop draft or click on the Create new campaign button to create a new campaign from scratch.
3. Click on the Video block in the right panel and drag it to the desired location in your mailing.
4. Click on the block to open the Video Properties panel.
5. In the "URL" field, enter the link to the desired YouTube or Vimeo video.
6. Adjust the title and play button settings, as desired.

You can still include links to videos that aren't hosted on YouTube or Vimeo in your mailings, but you won't use the video block to do so. Instead, upload the video file to your document library and then link to it in your mailing.

Video Settings

It's important to note that, although Vimeo videos can be set to unlisted, as long as the embed settings are set to embed “anywhere”, the video can still be added to the video block. However, if the video’s embed settings are instead set to “nowhere”, you will not be able to add it to the video block. Some settings are only available to those with paid Vimeo accounts. For questions about your Vimeo account and video embed settings, please reach out to Vimeo.

Share Settings	Embed Settings	Works in the Video Block?
Public	Anywhere	Yes
Unlisted	Anywhere	Yes
Unlisted	Nowhere	No
Password	N/A	No
Hide from Vimeo	N/A	No
Private	N/A	No

Thumbnail and Play Button

Thumbnail

The thumbnail that's featured in the video block is generated from the information that YouTube and Vimeo send us. As a result, there isn't a way to determine what the thumbnail should be without logging into the YouTube or Vimeo account that owns the video and selecting a different image from there.

However, if you'd like to use something different, you can add an image of your video by playing the video, taking a screenshot of the still image that you'd like to display, inserting that screenshot into your campaign as an image, and adding a link to the video behind that image.

Play Button

You can customize the play button type, color, and size from the Video Properties panel.

Video Properties

Here are the block settings that are found in the Video Properties panel.

Setting	Function
URL	Controls the URL behind the video.
Title	Controls the title of the link behind the video.
Play icon type	Click on the dropdown to change the play button's style.
Play icon color	Click on the dropdown menu to switch between a light and dark play button.
Play icon size	Click on the dropdown menu to choose a size for the play button.
Block padding	Controls the amount of space around the block. Use the plus and minus signs to adjust the padding to your liking or click on the More options toggle to adjust the padding for each side individually.
Hide on	Click on the desktop icon to hide the block on desktop devices. Click on the smartphone icon to hide the block on mobile devices.

Additional Resources

• Drag and Drop Editor: Content Tab
• Drag and Drop Editor: Links
• Drag and Drop Editor: Rows Tab
• Using the Image and Document Libraries
• Using the Legacy Video Block

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*In April 2022, Emma's legacy editor was replaced with a new drag and drop editor. Accounts that existed prior to this change still have access to the legacy editor through their previously saved templates and campaigns, however new, from-scratch campaigns can only be created in the new drag and drop editor. Accounts that were created after this change only have access to the new drag and drop editor. Please refer to our new editor FAQ article for more information.