Although it was already possible to remove the player control bar of YouTube videos you embed on your site, it was only last week that YouTube allowed you and me to remove the YouTube logo from the control bar itself.
Compare the two video snapshots below.
 Default - YouTube Logo Present |
 Modest Branding - No YouTube Logo |
Notice that the first video above (Default) has the YouTube logo in the player control. While the one on the right doesn’t.
The difference is that in the embed code for the “Modest Branding” video, I simply added the following string at the end of the URL for the video in the embed code:
?modestbranding=1.
Meaning that in the embed code for the video (reproduced below), you would simply add the string this way…
<iframe width=”640″ height=”390″ src=”http://www.youtube.com/embed/t8gFovSizAM?modestbranding=1” frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen></iframe>
And that’s all there is to it. Now you know.
And, now that you know, how would you propose using this in your own production projects? Are there any advantages of one versus the other?
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