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How Can I Send Video Email Messages?
If you're interested in sending video email using a hosting service that has provided you with some HTML to embed, you can certainly include that in your HTML messages.
However, please note that video technologies are generally blocked by ISPs and email clients and so your video may not be playable within an email message.
As a result, it is not advisable to embed a video directly within an email message. Fortunately, there are two alternatives to consider, and either would provide better results:
Sending Video Email Using a Link
You can place a link into your messages, linking to a page containing the actual video.
The link would be added just like any other link, with hyperlinked keywords for HTML messages, and a full URL address for Plain-Text.
For example, you might describe the video in text, and then include a link using text like "Click to Play the Video". Instructions for AWeber's new message editor are below. Instructions for the old version of the editor are further down the page.
Using an Image to Link to Video
Another alternative allows you to include something in your email that looks like a playable video, but what leads the subscriber to a page containing the actual playable video.It will require a few more steps than including a link but should not be difficult:
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Load the Video Page and Take a Screenshot
In your web browser, open the page containing the video you'd like to include in your email.
Scroll to a point on the page where you can clearly see your video. Then, take a screenshot of the page. -
After taking your screenshot, open a new file in your preferred image editing program. If you do not have image editing software on your computer, you can also make use of a free image editing website called Cut My Pic. This is completely free to use, and requires no registration or installation.
Once you've opened the site and the application has loaded, click the Browse button. Choose your screenshot to start editing it, then hit the Go! button.
Once it appears, use the draggable area under the Original Pic header to select the video.
Hit Preview when you've selected it - your image should now consist of just a capture of the video itself:
When you're happy with the result, click Done.
On this page, click the save button at the bottom. Save the file somewhere on your hard drive you'll be able to find easily in just a few minutes.
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Now, host the image and add it to your message as you would any other.
When adding the image, enter the URL of the video into the Image link field. This way, when people click the image of the first frame of your video, they'll be taken right to the video itself.
Using AWeber's Old Editor?
Another alternative allows you to include something in your email that looks like a playable video, but what leads the subscriber to a page containing the actual playable video.It will require a few more steps than including a text link but should not be difficult:
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Load the Video Page and Take a Screenshot
In your web browser, open the page containing the video you'd like to include in your email.
Scroll to a point on the page where you can clearly see your video. Then, take a screenshot of the page. -
After taking your screenshot, open a new file in your preferred image editing program. If you do not have image editing software on your computer, you can also make use of a free image editing website called Cut My Pic. This is completely free to use, and requires no registration or installation.
Once you've opened the site and the application has loaded, click the Browse button. Choose your screenshot to start editing it, then hit the Go! button.
Once it appears, use the draggable area under the Original Pic header to select the video.
Hit Preview when you've selected it - your image should now consist of just a capture of the video itself:
When you're happy with the result, click Done.
On this page, click the save button at the bottom. Save the file somewhere on your hard drive you'll be able to find easily in just a few minutes.
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Upload the Image to Your Website and Add to Email
As you would any image you'd like to include in your email messages, upload the image file somewhere on your website or image hosting service and get it's URL address.
Open your email message in AWeber, and scroll to the "HTML Message" portion of the page.
Using the image tool, add the image to the message. -
Turn the Image into a Link
The last thing you need to do is transform the image so that when it is clicked on, subscribers are sent to the page containing the video.
Use the link tool to accomplish this. In the "Title" box enter some text like "Click to Play the Video" so that subscribers with images turned off by default still see an option to play the video.
