How to make a video play automaticaly on landing page

  • 15 November 2013
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I would like to know how to make my embedded video play automatically when someone visits my landing page. Thanks.


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The videos are not showing in the landing page now at all, does anyone else have the same issue with Vidyard integration?

I am creating my first landing page. Even on iOS, autoplay is working with Vimeo when previewing my desktop page. The problem is that I have two short videos on autoplay and sometimes one autoplay, and sometimes the other one never both.
This isn’t very pleasant. Any suggestion?
This is not in the background; the background video is giving me no issues whatsoever.

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Hey @joshlevitan!
Alyssa from Unbounce here 🙂

I’m glad you got Autoplay working on your desktop version of your page! In regards to iOS and mobile in general - the different OS developers have intentionally disabled autoplay on mobile devices to reduce data usage, and prevent unwelcome or intrusive videos… You can read a good article on this here https://www.aerserv.com/why-does-video-autoplay-on-mobile-devices-not-work/ I suppose on a user experience level it’s nice if they get to click play 🙂

Many Unbounce pages choose to hide the video background from the mobile version, and instead apply a mobile-only background image.
I hope this helps Josh! Feel free to let me know if you have any further questions on this 🙌

Hey Johnny or anyone else. I used this code to make a Vimeo video autoplay. It worked on Chrome for Mac but not on Chrome for iOS. Any tips for that?

Thanks! I’ll definitely give it a shot.

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Hi Easton - It depends on what website is hosting your video. If your using vimeo you can follow this guide:

http://www.craftedbyharsh.com/how-to-…

Youtube requires a similar setup. Simply grab the embed code and append

?autoplay=1

to the end of the url.

http://leaderswest.com/2012/10/10/you…

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