How to Easily Turn Off Suggested Videos on YouTube Embeds
Reading Time: 2 minutes TL;DR Summary: Customize your YouTube embeds by turning off suggested videos and video titles easily with a few simple steps. Enhance your viewers' experience and maintain control over your content presentation. Check out the provided tool for quick customization or follow the manual steps outlined in this article to optimize your YouTube embeds. Start customizing now for a seamless viewing experience! Read more for detailed instructions on customizing your YouTube embeds.
Turn Off Suggested Videos on YouTube
YouTube is great. You get to upload videos there and it’s then really easy for you to share your video and have it play on all devices. You also get extra views of your video from the traffic that’s on YouTube.
But when I bring this up with some of my clients, I’m almost always asked the same question…
How do I turn off video suggestions on YouTube embed?
To stop related videos from showing at the end of a YouTube embed, follow these steps:
- Click Share under the YouTube video and choose Embed.
- Copy the iframe code provided.
- In the src URL, add ?rel=0 at the end (or &rel=0 if there’s already a ?).
- Paste the modified code into your website’s HTML.
NOTE: I build a tool to customize YouTube embed code, so before reading more, you might just want to check out that tool: YouTube Embed Code Builder
For example, here’s embed code for one of my videos:
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/M8NcDDc4nkc" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>
I like choosing the privacy enhanced mode so I don’t have to worry about the privacy policy stuff, so that’s why my embed code has “youtube-nocookie.com” in it.
There’s a section of that code that’s like this:
src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/M8NcDDc4nkc"
That’s sort of the embedded address of the video.
All you do is add “?rel=0” to the end (include the question mark – do not include the quotation marks. It’ll then look like this once you make that change:
src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/M8NcDDc4nkc?rel=0"And your complete embed code is then this:
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/M8NcDDc4nkc?rel=0" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>
And that will do it!
This even works on new YouTube embedding (at the time of writing this in 2020).
Turn off the Video Title
If you don’t want the video’s title showing, use this:
?showinfo=0
or this:
&showinfo=0
per how I explain above.
Enjoy!
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