Embeding Youtube Video in Storyline 3 Don't want suggested videos at end

Apr 18, 2019

I am working in Storyline 3 and embedding a youtube video. I am inserting the ?rel=0 after the URL (that is a zero I am typing in). I am still getting the suggested videos displayed at the end.

Has this changed? I know this used to work to suppress the suggested videos after the embedded video.

12 Replies

Alyssa Gomez
Staff

5 years ago04/19/19 at 5:20 pm (UTC)

Hi, Diane!

It looks like YouTube now doesn't have a way to disable the recommended videos. The rel=0 parameter stopped working back in September 2018: https://developers.google.com/youtube/player_parameters

Now, if the rel parameter is set to 0, related videos will come from the same channel as the video that was just played.

Diane Anderson
Author

5 years ago04/19/19 at 5:51 pm (UTC)

Thank you Alyssa. I am trying to figure out if there is some sort of trigger I can put in to end or move to the next slide once the video completes. But, it doesn't look like there is anything I can tie the trigger to because once they go out to Youtube Storyline doesn't know when the video completes because it's not considered media.

If anyone has any other thoughts I'd love to hear them. The video on youtube is 50 minutes+ so I don't want to insert the video as media. (I do have access to the video file.)

Paul Schneider

5 years ago04/20/19 at 1:27 am (UTC)

Best case is I think you have to write a custom JavaScript widget.

Russell Still

5 years ago04/21/19 at 10:45 pm (UTC)

Host the video on Vimeo. It gives you control on what happens at the end of the video.

Leslie Thurogood

over 4 years ago08/16/19 at 7:21 am (UTC)

I am not sure if it is compliant with YouTube permissions - I have placed a transparent shape over the YouTube video so the user cannot select any YouTube controls or further videos

it does not prevent them showing though 😔

the shape is delayed to “appear” after 10 seconds to allow the user to start the embedded YouTube video

over 4 years ago08/16/19 at 8:33 am (UTC)

Picking up on Alyssa's post, if you have more than 1 video on your channel, at least you won't be served any random content from unknown sources, i.e. it will only display your own videos as recommendations.

over 4 years ago08/26/19 at 5:30 pm (UTC)

Using JavaScript is a great idea. I'm sure YouTube has an API that could tell you when the video reaches the end via JavaScript. Has anyone figured out how to use this to auto-advance to the next slide?