YouTube Question Channel Trailers, set to autoplay?

[Dave's Fit Life]

My channel trailer plays automatically when you go to my channel. Is that rude?
Can I and should I change the setting for that. If so how do I do that?

 

[MediaMan]

I think all channel trailers play automatically, that's why they can have a disproportionate view count to other videos.

 

[Dave's Fit Life]

I think all channel trailers play automatically, that's why they can have a disproportionate view count to other videos.

Hmmm. okay. Thank you.
It feels rude and pushy. But ok.

 

[MediaMan]

Well, keep in mind there are 2 trailer types, one that is shown only for non subscribers and the other one for current subscribers. So I don't think there's anything pushy about them, plus they are only shown when they view your home channel page and at that point it's a good thing the non sub trailer plays automatically because it's a great opportunity to get a new sub which accents just how important the trailer is, especially the first few seconds or so. For current subs seems like most channels either play their most popular video or their latest video.

 

[Random]

thats a great ?

 

[Dave's Fit Life]

Well, keep in mind there are 2 trailer types, one that is shown only for non subscribers and the other one for current subscribers. So I don't think there's anything pushy about them, plus they are only shown when they view your home channel page and at that point it's a good thing the non sub trailer plays automatically because it's a great opportunity to get a new sub which accents just how important the trailer is, especially the first few seconds or so. For current subs seems like most channels either play their most popular video or their latest video.

Ok. Good enough. Thank you for responding. I appreciate that!

 

[Random]

Your welcome

 

[emildior]

Since April 2018, Google made some changes to the Autoplay Policy. You not only need to add the autoplay=1 as a query param, but also add allow='autoplay' as an iframe's attribute

So while embed youtube video, you will have to do something like this:

<iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/VIDEO_ID?autoplay=1" allow='autoplay'></iframe>