![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Watch on YouTube button is so prominent that some users may perceive it as an instruction rather than an optional prompt and click/tap it thinking that’s what they need to do to watch the video. The latter, of course, will take the user away from the publisher’s website to, probably in many cases never to return to the publisher’s website. It displays on the thumbnail cover image until the user either clicks/taps the start button in the center of the video or clicks/taps the Watch on YouTube button in the lower left. New Branding Not Very ModestĪs you can see in the screenshot shown above (Exhibit 1), YouTube/Google positioned their new Watch on YouTube button-link quite prominently. While Google has every right to make changes to their products and services – especially free services like basic YouTube channels – it seems a bit less than ethical for them to invite web publishers across the planet to use their free video sharing service for well over a decade (Google acquired YouTube in 2006) and then suddenly introduce a button-link that will effectively hijack a percentage of the viewer traffic that otherwise would have remained on the publisher’s website or blog. Screenshot showing the new “Watch on YouTube” button-link. Here is a screenshot of the Watch on YouTube button. I noticed it suddenly start showing up on the website of one of my clients for whom I had been embedding YouTube videos over the course of a few weeks. The issue is YouTube/Google now adds a “Watch on YouTube” button-link (some call it a badge) which prompts users to essentially leave a website or blog where they found an embedded YouTube video and, instead, watch it at .Īs far as I can tell, this button/badge was added sometime after. Watch on YouTube Button – What’s the Issue? SEO Impact (Search Engine Optimization).Caution: The ‘sandbox’ Attribute Disables Links, It Does Not Remove Them.Method #2: Remove the Watch On YouTube Button by Limiting Video Size.How to Disable the Watch on YouTube Button - Two Methods.Confusion Between New Button and Logo in Control Bar.Watch on YouTube Button – What’s the Issue?. ![]()
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