Adding a video to your Web Store is a powerful tool to engage your website visitors, drive more traffic, be entertaining or informative. If you embed a custom video is even better. Thus will give your company a personality, increase your reach and you will be also able to deliver your message or focus on some of the products/ services features.
There are various sections in the Admin Panel where you can embed a video, so that it's displayed in different places on your store, depending on your goals and desires. See all the options below.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Embed a Video to a Product Page
- Embed a Video to a Landing Page
- Embed a Video to the Footer
- Embed a Video to all products in your store
- Embed a Video which to be visible in certain products and/or categories
- Delete An Embedded YouTube Video
Embed a Video to a Product Page
1.Log into your Admin Panel > Products
2.Choose the product, which you want to embed a video on.
3.In the Rich text editor find where you want to put the video, then tap on the Insert Video icon.
4.You will see the Insert/edit media window, choose Embed
Where to find the embedded code of a video? The embed snippet usually starts with "<iframe..." To get this embed code go to the YouTube video you want to insert, from the Share button below the video > tap Embed> Copy the code and paste it back into the Insert/edit media window. You can adjust the settings of the video before copying the code if you like /width, height/.
On the picture below you can see how embedded code looks like.
You can also add a video in the short description field of a product. This will change the place where the video will be displayed on the product page of your store.
Embed a Video to a Landing Page
1.Log into your Admin Panel > Marketing > Landing Pages
2.Select the desired Landing page you want to embed a video in.
3.Go to the section of your Landing Page where you want to put the video and tap Add new widget > Add Video.
4.You will see the Insert/edit media window, choose Embed.
5.From the drop-down menu Video type select Embed and paste the embed code taken from Youtube video from the Share button (see how in the Note of Embed a Video to a Product Page above) and click Submit.
Note: To be able to use this functionality, you need to create a Landing page in advance. See how here.
Embed a Video to the Footer
1.Log into your Admin Panel > My Store > Widgets
2.From Others section, choose Footer Text.
3.In the Rich text editor find where you want to put the video, then tap on the Insert Video icon and choose Embed.
4. Paste the embedded code taken from a Youtube video from the Share button /see how in the Note of Embed a Video to a Product Page above/ and click Submit.
On the picture below you can see how the video will look like in the footer.
Embed a Video to all products in your store
You can add a video which will be visible on every product page of your store. This can be done from the "Product details text" section. It would be useful if you are planning to upload a promotional video that applies to all products.
Note: This widget is available only for certain themes.
1.Log into your Admin Panel > My Store > Widgets
2..From Others section, choose Product details text
3.In the Rich text editor find where you want to put the video, then tap on the Insert Video icon.
4.You will see the Insert/edit media window, choose Embed
5. Paste the embedded code taken from a Youtube video from the Share button /see how in the Note of Embed a Video to a Product Page above/ and click Submit.
The video will appear in the bottom right corner of every product's page, under the Add to cart button.
Embed a Video which to be visible in certain products and/or categories
Embedding a video to certain products and/ or categories, for example, a promotion video can be done with Label Discount.
1.Log into your Admin Panel > Marketing > Discounts
2.In the upper right corner, click Add discount and choose Label Discount
3.In the Rich text editor find where you want to put the video, then tap on the Insert Video icon.
4.You will see the Insert/edit media window, choose Embed5. Paste the embedded code taken from a Youtube video from the Share button /see how in the Note of Embed a Video to a Product Page above/ and click Submit.
6. In the next section Discount target from the drop-down menu select the product, product categories, vendors, collections or category vendor for which Label discount will be active as well as where the video will appear according to your selection.
Delete An Embedded YouTube Video
1.Go to the Product page where the video you want to remove is located.
2.Place the cursor after the video and just hit the Backspace button on your keyboard like you would delete text.
3.Another way to delete an embedded video is by deleting its embed code.