So my content always includes a video embed, and this is the most important element of my content, the video. [screencapture-ghost-production-7f89-up-railway-app-censored-again-by-youtube-they-dont-want-you-to-know-the-truth-2024-01-13-20_58_21] Yet, in the email this video is not shown… which I …

How specifically are you creating the youtube embed? Are you using /youtube or /embed or something else?

I’m embedding Odysse videos via HTML embed. It doesn’t have to show the embed in the email but at least a placeholder or something no? How do users know there is a video? The image is not clickable? There is no button that says read article or watch video!

If it’s a youtube embed, the email default should be more reasonable. An html card with a bunch of embedded javascript isn’t going to work in email. Email clients won’t parse the javascript, so nothing will happen. There’s a recent thread discussing workarounds, but basically, you’ll want to make…

Ok, so how do I make the image redirect to my post?

[image] Clicking in email re-directs to Youtube, not website - any work around? Using Ghost little piece of javascript in an html card: <script> window.location.href = "/path/to/post" </script>

Also, the email is only serving the function of notifying the user of new content. I don’t want the users to consume the content by email. I want them to go to my post and read and watch there. In email marketing systems I just added a big fat “GO TO VIDEO” button or something like that. How do I ad…

You can type anything you want for the button’s url. Ghost sends newsletters that contain the whole post. If you only want a preview, create a separate newsletter and email only, don’t publish to web.

That’s duplicating my work. I came to ghost because supposedly I don’t have to do both, I wanted to simplify my work. I can’t even find a way to hide certain things from the email

Ah. Sounds like you might want to find a matching topic in the Ideas forum, or start your own.

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