Youtube

Youtube is a popular video streaming service, from a company that is known for tracking and profiling. The solution is a poster image that links out to Youtube, so nothing is loaded from Youtube until the visitor clicks it. You can see it in action on the elements page. To show the poster, write:

{{< youtube qtIqKaDlqXo >}}

Give only the video id and the poster comes from Youtube’s thumbnail server at build time, processed and served from your own site. To host the poster yourself, pass a local image as well:

{{< youtube "qtIqKaDlqXo" "/uploads/youtubeposter.jpg" >}}
{{< youtube id="qtIqKaDlqXo" image="/uploads/youtubeposter.jpg" >}}

The play button and wordmark are painted by the stylesheet, and a remote fetch that fails only costs the poster, never the build. Vimeo works the same way.