How To Remove Video Thumbnail Previews At The End Of Videos On Youtube

Updated December 16, 2020

One of the almost popular posts on this blog for the last five years (!) was about how to remove related videos from the end of an embedded YouTube video. It consistently brought in tens of thousands of visits a year. That is, until recently, when traffic to that post started to dip significantly.

I figured the post was starting to show its historic period (5 Net years is equivalent to 1,253 human years so…), only then I came across a new feature in YouTube that explains information technology:

You can now choose whether to display related videos on an embedded YouTube video past unselecting a checkbox in the YouTube user interface!

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Nope. That doesn't piece of work now either. That sentence above was written in January 2018, and sadly that workaround didn't last very long.

As of this update, on December 16, 2020, the merely style to really turn off related videos at the cease of your YouTube video embed, is to apply the Embed Plus for Youtube plugin. Or ditch YouTube entirely since this business is starting to get annoying. Other options for hosting your video are DailyMotion, Vimeo and Wistia.

The good news is that if you are still using "?rel=0" at the end of the video URL in the vain hope of turning off related videos, all is non lost. As of this latest update, it will ensure that users are sent on to videos from your channel. Which is a lot better than being sent to a "related video" from the competition!

Feel free to read on, but the rest of this blog mail is pretty much outdated now.

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Visit the page of the YouTube video you would similar to embed. For our purposes, I'm going to become with this gorgeous cover of Imagine Dragon's vocal "Believer" past Koolulam.

Click on the Share push under the video:
Click on the Embed link at the lesser of the Share pop-upwards box:
At present yous will see a box with a few pieces of information: the embed code that you lot can re-create paste into your web folio; and a number of checkboxes with options (scroll downwards to encounter them, information technology'southward no so clear that theyr'eastward there), one of which is…"Bear witness suggested videos when the video finishes." Unselect that box.
When you lot cheque and uncheck boxes information technology modifies the embed code that appears at the top of the box. In one case you are satisfied with the results, copy the embed code wherever yous want and voilà! No more than related videos on your embedded YouTube video.