How to embed video to email via Gmail or M365 modules?

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Hello,

does anyone if it is possible to embed a video into an email body with Gmail or M365? I tried but when I send this:

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I receive this:

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Is there any way to make it work?

Thank you :pray:

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It is not possible to embed videos directly into emails as emails use a limited implementation of HTML. There are a few platforms out there that use animated GIFs (that can be embedded into emails) as placeholders for videos that then take you to the actual video once you click on the GIF. For example Bombbomb is a platform that I worked with that does this.

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In particular, SCRIPT tags are not allowed.

You can use an image thumbnail that will link to the actual video file or page.

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Thank you for your response.

@samliew Good idea. I don’t think I could just copy/paste an image into the module? I would need to upload it somewhere and then put in the HTML code?

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There are several options to embed images directly in emails, mentioned here embedding image in html email - Stack Overflow

In particular, you can try to convert images to base64 using the built-in function base64.

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