How To Prevent Embedded Youtube Video From Showing Other Videos

Updated December 16, 2020

One of the most popular posts on this web log for the last v years (!) was well-nigh how to remove related videos from the end of an embedded YouTube video. It consistently brought in tens of thousands of visits a year. That is, until recently, when traffic to that post started to dip significantly.

I figured the post was starting to show its age (v Internet years is equivalent to 1,253 human years so…), but then I came across a new feature in YouTube that explains information technology:

Yous tin can now choose whether to display related videos on an embedded YouTube video by unselecting a checkbox in the YouTube user interface!

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Nope. That doesn't work now either. That sentence above was written in Jan 2018, and sadly that workaround didn't last very long.

Every bit of this update, on December sixteen, 2020, the only way to really plough off related videos at the end of your YouTube video embed, is to apply the Embed Plus for Youtube plugin. Or ditch YouTube entirely since this business is starting to get abrasive. Other options for hosting your video are DailyMotion, Vimeo and Wistia.

The good news is that if you are even so using "?rel=0" at the terminate of the video URL in the vain hope of turning off related videos, all is non lost. Equally of this latest update, information technology will ensure that users are sent on to videos from your channel. Which is a lot amend than being sent to a "related video" from the competition!

Experience costless to read on, but the rest of this blog post is pretty much outdated now.

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Visit the page of the YouTube video yous would like to embed. For our purposes, I'one thousand going to go with this gorgeous comprehend of Imagine Dragon's song "Believer" by Koolulam.

Click on the Share push button under the video:
Click on the Embed link at the bottom of the Share pop-upwardly box:
Now you lot volition run into a box with a few pieces of information: the embed code that you tin can copy paste into your web page; and a number of checkboxes with options (curlicue down to see them, it's no and then articulate that theyr'e in that location), ane of which is…"Show suggested videos when the video finishes." Unselect that box.
When you check and uncheck boxes it modifies the embed code that appears at the top of the box. Once y'all are satisfied with the results, copy the embed code wherever you lot want and voilà! No more related videos on your embedded YouTube video.