Video Showcase widget
Every video you make, on your own site.
A platform's embed code gives you one video in a box. This gives you the lot: YouTube playlists and channels, Vimeo showcases, Twitch broadcasts and TikTok videos, in tabs, as a slider or a grid, with each video playing on your page instead of handing your visitor off to a sidebar full of other people's videos.
Why bother
The default embed works against you
You spent the effort getting someone onto your page. YouTube's standard embed is built to take them off it again.
They stay on your page
The player opens over the gallery, on your domain. When the video ends they are looking at your other videos, not at a wall of suggestions for somebody else's channel.
Shorts are not squashed
Shorts get their own tab and their own upright shape. Dropping a vertical video into a landscape box gives you a thin strip of picture between two black bars, and everyone can tell.
It keeps itself current
Point it at a channel or a playlist once. New uploads appear on their own. You are not going back into your site editor every time you post.
Layout
Grid or slider
A grid for a library someone is going to browse: a course, a back catalog, a documentation channel. A slider for a strip of recent episodes under a hero, where the videos are supporting the page rather than being the page.
Both set separately for phones, so a four column grid on a monitor is not four unreadable columns on a handset.
Playlists
Tabs, when you need them
One gallery can pull from several playlists, each getting its own tab across the top. Season one and season two. Tutorials and interviews. Long videos and Shorts.
The free plan covers one playlist. Multiple playlists in a single gallery are a Pro feature.
Who puts one in
Where this tends to go
Podcasts
Every episode on one page, in order, playable without sending the listener to a different site to find episode one.
Course sites
A lesson library as a grid, split into modules by playlist, each module its own tab.
Product demos
A slider under the hero. Short, specific, and it does not throw competitor videos at the visitor when it finishes.
Creator sites
Long videos and Shorts side by side without the Shorts looking broken, which is the usual reason people give up on this.
Churches and schools
Recent services or lectures, updating on their own, with nobody needing to edit the website each week.
Agencies
A reel of client work, on the client's own domain rather than borrowed from a YouTube channel page.
Questions
Asked often
How do I embed a whole YouTube channel on my website?
YouTube's own embed handles one video at a time. Build a gallery here, point it at the channel or a playlist, and paste one iframe tag into your page. It lays out every video and updates itself when you post.
Can people watch without leaving my site?
Yes. The player opens over the gallery on your page. That is usually the whole point of putting videos on your own site rather than linking out to YouTube.
Does it show Shorts?
Shorts get their own tab and keep their upright shape rather than being letterboxed into a landscape frame.
Is there a limit on views?
On the free plan, each widget can be shown 300 times a month, then it pauses until the month turns. Every paid plan has no view limit. Widget services normally meter impressions on paid plans too; we serve from a CDN where views cost us nothing, so a paid plan does not count them.
Will it slow my page down?
It loads in its own frame after your page, from a CDN, and nothing is installed on your site. Thumbnails load as they come into view rather than all at once, and the player itself is only loaded when somebody presses play.
Where can I put it?
Anywhere that accepts an embed: WordPress, Wix, Squarespace, Webflow, Shopify, GoDaddy or plain HTML. One iframe tag, no plugin.
Point one at your channel
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