Deep Linking To YouTube Videos Now Possible

Writing by Nick Stamoulis Tweet

YouTube has announced that you can now deep link to within their videos. Don’t want to link to the complete video and waste your viewers’ time by forcing them to watch the complete 20 minute clown act of two sisters jump roping when the really funny part about one of them getting the rope wrapped around her neck happens at 10:25? Then just deep link to the 10:25 point in the video and be done with it. Here’s how:

Add the extender #t=1m15s to the end of the YouTube video URL. Your site visitors that click that link to see the video will jump right into the middle of it where you want them to rather than see it from the beginning. But what does the extender mean?

Glad you asked. The 1m15s means 1 minute, 15 seconds, which is the time reference of the video where you want your visitors to jump to. Sorry. You get no link juice for deep linking to a video, but YouTube does.