It is no secret that the Internet user has a limited attention span . It is important to keep this in mind, especially with longer YouTube videos in which only a certain fragment contains the information that we are interested in..
The simplest solution in this case is to share only a fragment of the YouTube video. So that your audience doesn't lose interest right from the start or have to search for the important part of the video, you can simply share a fragment of the video with a start-view marker. It does not matter if you integrate the video on a web page or if you share it in another way: the video starts exactly at the moment you have defined.
We show you how to include this home marker and share a YouTube video clip..
The easiest way to share just a snippet of a YouTube video is to include a start marker using the? Start at? Option. by sharing it. Unfortunately, this option is only available in the browser version and not in the YouTube app. If you have the ability to open the video in a browser, follow the directions below to create and share your own YouTube video clip:
If you open a video in the YouTube app on a mobile device, you can't share just a snippet, but you can manually create a link with a timestamp. This solution works both in the browser and in the app .
As a starting point for this alternative, you need the URL of your YouTube link , which is found in the address bar in the browser. In the app, click? Share ? Y ? Copy link ? below the video to get the url. Then proceed as follows:
Add ? ? t = X ? at the end of the URL, without a space. The? X? represents seconds. For example, if the video should start at second 54, the URL will look like this:
https://youtu.be/n5H8MeCl6As?t=54s
If you want to indicate minutes and seconds, use the pattern? ? t = XmYs ?. In this case, the? X? represents the minutes and the? Y ?, the seconds. The YouTube link looks like this:
https://youtu.be/n5H8MeCl6As?t=?t=0m54s
Add ? & t = Xs ? or? & t = XmYs ? no space at the end of the url. In the first case, the? X? represents the seconds, while in the second, the? X? represents the minutes and the? Y ?, the seconds. In the link example below, the video starts at second 26:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55xkdQZ_9bY&t=26s
If it is a long video and you need to include the time marker in hours, does the combination work as well? ? t = XhYs ? or? & t = XhYs ?. Here, the? X? represents the hours..
Including a time marker in the YouTube link does not necessarily mean that the user must start the video at that point: if he wants to see the entire video, he can manually drag the time bar slider to the beginning.
