Inserting videos and embedded files in articles and content blocks

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<p id="docs-hc-snippet" style="display: none;">You can insert videos and embedded files in the body of your help center knowledge base articles, either through the help center editor toolbar or by embedding code in your article.</p>
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<p class="p">You can insert videos and embedded files in the body of your help center knowledge base
articles, either through the help center editor toolbar or by embedding code in your article. </p>
<p class="p">You can also use the content block editor to insert videos and embedded files into content
blocks, making them reusable across one or more articles in your help center. See <a class="xref" href="https://support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/4408832857754-Creating-and-inserting-reusable-information-with-content-blocks" target="_blank">Creating and inserting reusable information with content
blocks</a>.</p>
<p class="p">All plans include the ability to insert videos and embedded files in articles; however,
content blocks are available in Enterprise plans only. See <a class="xref" href="https://support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/4408829589274-Reusing-content-with-content-blocks" target="_blank">Reusing content with content blocks</a>.</p>
<div class="p">This article covers the following topics:<ul class="ul" id="topic_ncb_d14_lz__ul_z2x_4pn_nkb">
<li class="li"><a class="xref" href="#topic_ump_fpv_knb">Inserting videos and embedded files from the article editor toolbar</a></li>
<li class="li"><a class="xref" href="#topic_bpq_gpv_knb">Inserting videos by embedding code</a></li>
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<h2 class="title topictitle2" id="ariaid-title2">Inserting videos and embedded files from the article editor toolbar</h2>
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<div class="p">If your video is hosted on one of the supported third-party video hosting services, you can
insert it directly from the article editor toolbar:<ul class="ul" id="topic_ump_fpv_knb__ul_tmj_kpv_knb">
<li class="li">YouTube</li>
<li class="li">Figma/Jam</li>
<li class="li">Loom</li>
<li class="li">Vimeo</li>
<li class="li">Wistia</li>
<li class="li">Synthesia</li>
<li class="li">JWPlayer</li>
<li class="li">Brightcove</li>
<li class="li">Vidyard</li>
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<div class="note note" id="topic_ump_fpv_knb__note_d4j_l1k_w5b">
<span class="notetitle">Note:</span> YouTube Shorts are not currently supported.</div>
<p class="p">If you are using <a class="xref" href="https://support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/4408836216218" target="_blank">Web Widget (Classic)</a> on your website or help center,
your end users can stream videos in help center articles directly in the Web Widget
(Classic). To display correctly in the Web Widget (Classic), videos must be publicly
available and hosted on one of the supported third-party services.</p>
<p class="p"><strong class="ph b">To insert a video or embedded file in an article using the article editor
toolbar</strong></p>
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<li class="li">Copy the URL for your video.<p class="p">Your video or embedded file must be hosted on one of the
services listed at the beginning of this article. If your video or embedded file is on
one of the supported services, you can use this procedure to insert it into an article.
You do not need to enable the option to allow unsafe content in your help center to do
so.</p>
<p class="p">If your video or embedded file is <em class="ph i">not</em> hosted on a supported provider,
you'll need to <a class="xref" href="#topic_bpq_gpv_knb">insert the video by
embedding code</a>).</p>
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<li class="li">In help center or Knowledge admin, edit an existing article or content block or create a
new article or content block.<div class="note note" id="topic_ump_fpv_knb__note_mbh_fyc_3vb">
<span class="notetitle">Note:</span> You must be on an Enterprise plan
to use content blocks.</div>
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<li class="li">Click the Article components button (<img class="image" id="topic_ump_fpv_knb__image_fft_k3h_kjc" src="https://zen-marketing-documentation.s3.amazonaws.com/docs/en/Article-components-button.png" width="35">) on the article editor toolbar and select
<strong class="ph b">Embed</strong>.<p class="p"><img class="image img-screenshot" id="topic_ump_fpv_knb__image_udm_l3h_kjc" src="https://zen-marketing-documentation.s3.amazonaws.com/docs/en/guide-embed-vid-file-new-editor.png" width="200"></p>
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<li class="li">Paste the URL for the video or embedded file in the dialog box. A preview of the video
or file appears.<p class="p">To insert a video created using JWPlayer, use the URL format
<strong class="ph b">content.jwplatform.com/players/<em class="ph i">&lt;video id&gt;</em>-<em class="ph i">&lt;player
id&gt;</em></strong></p>
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<li class="li">Click <strong class="ph b">Insert</strong>.</li>
<li class="li">When you are ready, click <strong class="ph b">Save</strong>.</li>
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<h2 class="title topictitle2" id="ariaid-title3">Inserting videos by embedding code</h2>
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<p class="p">If your video is hosted on a non-supported service, you use the article source code editor
to add the video’s <a class="xref" href="https://support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/4408829627930#embedding" target="_blank">embed code</a> to insert the video. Be aware that this means you must
allow unsafe HTML (see <a class="xref" href="https://support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/4408824584602#topic_ihw_rcy_kxb" target="_blank">Allowing unsafe HTML in articles</a>).</p>
<p class="p">Some third-party video hosting services do not count video views unless you have manually
embedded the code to insert the video. Use the embed method if you need to track video views
as part of your analytics.</p>
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