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What is a YouTube video widget for Squarespace?
With our powerful social media aggregator tool, you can embed YouTube video widgets on any e-commerce platform or CMS, including Squarespace.
EmbedSocial offers one of the best YouTube video widgets out there, as it connects directly via the YouTube API to collect, manage, and display your content.
Your brand or business probably has a YouTube account, so it would be a shame not to use that content on your website to engage your visitors.
Instead of manually adding YouTube videos to your Squarespace site, you can connect your account to EmbedSocial, create your widget, and embed it anywhere you’d like.
Then, the widget will automatically update as you publish new YouTube videos!
No coding skills or technical knowledge is required!
Benefits of a YouTube widget for Squarespace
Adding user-generated content to your Squarespace website does more than just make your site look good—it changes the way you do business for a few reasons:
- Transforms your website visitors into YouTube followers
- Adds great value with more engaging content
- Increases time on site with engaging YouTube content
- Brings more visitors and drives more traffic
- Increases conversions via social proof
- Expands the reach of your YouTube account
- Adds a shoppable UGC feed to your website
From fashion and music to cooking and fitness, all kinds of businesses use YouTube to stay in touch with their younger customer base—they use this content as a social feed on their websites, which displays all their latest YouTube videos.
Plus, users can make their YouTube video widgets fit nicely with their website design by choosing from different layouts that look great on any and all devices.
Features of our YouTube widget for Squarespace
The EmbedSocial UGC Platform is built to help Squarespace users make the most out of their user-generated content. Here’s what you get:
- Mobile-responsive widgets that work great everywhere!
- Feed moderation options to showcase the content you want
- Various widget layouts and customization options to get the right look
- Set media to open in a lightbox or add a “Load More” button
- Link YouTube content to your social media accounts and add a follow button
- YouTube feed templates that match any Squarespace design
- Set the number of photos or columns for the front-end widgets
- Automatically sync your latest YouTube videos with your widget
- Connect your widget to Google Analytics to track your progress
- Shoppable YouTube widgets (option to add Buy buttons to each post)
- Full control of the widget design with a Custom CSS editor
- Lazy-load scrolling or paged pagination
- Multiple YouTube video widgets on different Squarespace pages
- Combo widget with other social feeds, such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, Vimeo, TikTok, and more, or craft a custom one
How to embed a YouTube feed in Squarespace?
Adding a UGC-powered YouTube widget to your Squarespace site is easier than ever. Just follow these simple steps to have it up and running:
- Start your free trial with EmbedSocial
- Select YouTube as a source and connect your account
- Choose the type of YouTube feed you want to embed
- Customize the widget to your website design
- Copy the EmbedSocial widget code
- Log in toyour Squarespace account and choose your page
- Click ‘Add new section’ → ‘Add block‘ where you want to display the widget
- From the blocks list, choose the ‘Embed Block’
- Click on the block, select ‘Code Snippet’, and click ‘Embed data’
- Paste the copied EmbedSocial widget code in the box
- Make sure to save and publish your changes on Squarespace
Once you place the YouTube video widget on your Squarespace site, you can change your widget style and colors at any time without any restrictions!
For more details, feel free to reach out to our dedicated support team, and we will be more than happy to guide you through the process step by step.
Getting started
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FAQs about the YouTube widget
Have a specific question about embedding the YouTube widget? Check the FAQ section below or click the bottom right chat icon and talk with us.
1. Connect your social media accounts
2. Customize and moderate your feed
3. Copy & paste the embed code into your website
Additionally, you can enable localization options to make sure it fits your language.
