- Sign in to your blog and start a new entry.
- Write your entry in the
Text of entry box.
- Now go to YouTube.com and view the video you want to embed in your entry.
- Copy the URL of the YouTube video from the address bar in your web browser:
![YouTube video URL highlighted in web browser](copy-youtube-url.jpg)
- Go back to your blog entry and select the Insert embedded media button in the toolbar.
- In the Insert embedded media popup paste the YouTube video URL in the top text field:
![Screenshot of insert embedded media popup box and text field labelled "URL pasted from video site or URL of media file"](insert-embedded-media-popup.png)
- Click Insert at the bottom of the popup box. You should now see the URL enclosed in
[media]
tags like this:![Screenshot of YouTube URL surrounded by media tags in the BlogBuilder text entry box](media-tags.png)
- You can test the video is embedded by previewing your entry. The YouTube video should appear.
- When you've finished writing your entry click Publish now.
- You should now see the YouTube video in your live entry and be able to play it:
![Screenshot of published entry with video embedded and red play button](published-entry-with-embedded-video.jpg)