YouTube uploads, playback quality and embedding video on a business website.
Most small businesses put their video on YouTube and embed it on their own site, which is usually the right call. It also means handing playback over to a system you don't control: YouTube decides which renditions to build, which codec each one gets, and what quality a viewer starts on.
These articles come from our own channel and our own films. What we checked when a video kept playing in low quality, what fixed it, and how to embed a YouTube video on a fast page without the player costing you your PageSpeed score.
Our brand film was uploaded in 1080p and kept starting on Auto (240p). There is no setting to force HD, so we read the renditions YouTube had built, found VP9 at only one rung, and re-uploaded at 1440p. How to check your own video, and when a re-upload is worth it.
