My video's on a lot of websites

Actually if an embedding site is using the official YouTube player, there will be a "watch on YouTube" button available for actually watching the video on YouTube's site, though there is no obligation to do so.
 
XXLRay said:
Embedded videos can be a problem because YouTube's promotion elements are missing on these sites.
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I've been wondering for awhile whether allowing embedding hurts a video's chances of being picked up by Youtube's algorithms. If the algorithm is based on retention and session length, then certainly the chances that a person will continue on Youtube after watching your embedded video aren't very good (unless you are on a wall of videos on a web page, in which case that situation might even possibly increase your chances at higher retention and longer viewing sessions).

I will invoke our resident no-promotion promoters @Crown and @YouTuber1978 to ask them how they feel about the effect on retention/session time of allowing embedding as I am curious to hear what they have to say.
 
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If you check the traffic info for these websites at alexa.com you will see that they are very small and very unpopular. I don't think they will have any significant effect on your channel.

PS. And yes - watermark your videos. In ours I just write at the bottom:

Chottomattenet YouTube Channel (c) 2015

You can get at least a little bit exposure with such websites but it will be very small.
 
zaffron said:
Actually we need the option of embedding but we don't want the possibility to download those videos
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It's not that YouTube allows for it but anything on the Internet can be technically copied - at least via screen capture.

WilliamRayWalters said:
If the algorithm is based on retention and session length, then certainly the chances that a person will continue on Youtube after watching your embedded video aren't very good (unless you are on a wall of videos on a web page, in which case that situation might even possibly increase your chances at higher retention and longer viewing sessions).
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That's why I said you need strong video elements that make a viewer really visit your channel. Embedding pages (Reddit, Instructables, ...) can give you exposure but you need to catch these viewers.
 
XXLRay said:
That's why I said you need strong video elements that make a viewer really visit your channel. Embedding pages (Reddit, Instructables, ...) can give you exposure but you need to catch these viewers.
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For whatever reason, I never had much confidence in driving traffic anywhere from a video through means that do not involve easily clicking and going there (e.g. watermarks). Is a watermark or hardcoded annotation better than nothing? Sure, but my guess is that the clickthrough stats from such things are pretty low.
 
From all I heard a good interactive end card really works. I at least put it on every one of my videos.
 
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