How To Officially Remove YouTube's Logo From YouTube Embedded Video Players

YouTube has added more appealing features in its video services. Recently, the world renowned video service provider announced two new changes made for embedded videos . The first change is the addition of HD Preview Images for videos higher than 480p, while the second which happens to be a big surprise isthe official access granted to all publishers to remove the YouTube's logo from YouTube embedded videos . According to the news posted on YouTube official blog: It may be hard to imagine, but YouTube’s video preview images represent to many the ultimate deciding factor as to whether or not towatch a video. If a preview image looks interesting, it can mean the difference between someone pressing the play button. In addition, your site and the videoson it represent to you polished masterpieces. Yet, your videos’ preview images can appear lower in quality, and sometimes you don'twant a logo in your player. So today we're rolling out new featuresfor both situations: HD preview images and the option to remove the logo from your player. The First Change: New HD YouTube Preview/Thumbnail Images According to YouTube, startingfrom now, whenever you upload a new video or an HD screencast with a resolution greater than 480p, YouTube will generate a high definition thumbnail image for the video, and will be used whenever youembed the video on a website or blog. This feature will hencegive a really attractive look and feel to the embedded video. Here's a before-and-after example of the quality increase we're talking about here: Another great news YouTube brought for video sharing sitesis that they will automatically assign better thumbnails to their older videos so if any of them still have older thumbnails, they will be replaced by their newer counterparts. YouTube partners on the other hand will have to upload a new thumbnail image to all their videos, if they have earlier uploaded a thumbnail image to any of their videos. Second Change: The Big Surprise (YouTube's Logo Now Removable On YouTube Embedded Videos) The big surprise is that YouTube has now given all publishers the choice of leavingor removing its official and branded logo on all YouTube embedded videos. Trust me, YouTube says it's purely optional and no strings attached! All you have to do isadd this code ?modestbranding=1 at the end of the YouTube video URL or ID. This code works for boththe Iframe embed code and Object embed code. See the required code as I have highlighted below ?modestbranding=1 Now adding the code above toyour YouTube video ID will looklike this: ... src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/VIDEOID ?modestbranding=1 " ... Okay, let's be more practical! YouTube Video with YouTube's Logo YouTube Video with No YouTube's Logo How to Make It Happen IFrame Embed Code Object Embed Code Embedding YouTube Video Without Video Title I noticed that a small “YouTube” text label still shows up in the upper-right corner of a paused video whenyou hover over the player. This can actually be taken care of using some noted parameters recommended by YouTube. You can do that by working on the title tag. Hence, you can decide not to publish your video with a title, i.e => "title=". So, if you would like to remove the logo and aswell remove the title from the player, all you need to do is structure the embed src player string as follows, leaving"title=" blank: ... src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/VIDEOID?modestbranding=1&title=" ... Hope you enjoyed reading this update? Let me know what you think in comments...