- Hey guys, Sam here from keycommerce.com.
In this video, you're going to learn
how to add a video to your Shopify website.
To your homepage, create a section,
have a video right there.
Very, very quickly.
First thing you need to do is go to youtube.com.
Super simple.
This is where we're gonna upload our video.
So go to youtube.com,
log into your Gmail account,
click this button here and then go Upload Video.
We now need to upload our video to YouTube
before we can put it on our website.
Once you see this page here,
you're going to drag in your video
into this upload section here.
So I'm gonna drag it right in.
It's then going to start uploading.
Make sure you title it to something relevant.
If that's a product video or a sales video, what have you.
It's gonna start uploading.
I recommend that you add a thumbnail
because this is what people are gonna see
on your website as well
before they actually play your video.
The next thing we wanna do
is go over to the visibility tab here
and then make sure it's set to unlisted.
What this does is it means that your video
is going to be viewable publicly in the web
but no one can actually search for it directly.
This allows us to embed it on your Shopify store
so people can view it when they look at your store
but it's not gonna be showing up on your YouTube channel
and it's not gonna be searchable
in the search results on YouTube or Google.
Once you've done that click Save.
Now we're going to go into our Shopify dashboard.
Let's now create the video section on our homepage.
You're gonna go to Online Store.
You're going to click Customize.
This is where we can now edit our homepage
with the drag and drop builder.
You're gonna scroll down then on the left
and click Add Section.
Here we're gonna scroll down to the bottom
and there's a section type called video.
It's now gonna add the same here.
You cannot click select to highlight that same section.
And now we can actually add in the details
of our video into the Shopify store.
So here you see this video link section right here,
we're now going to go back to our YouTube channel
and get the video link.
So just click on the video.
It's gonna open up this settings page
but you can also select the video over here.
This opens the video up in a new tab
and you can just copy this link.
Go back, the link, what's currently in there>
And then paste it in.
It's then gonna load in that video
and here it's not gonna show an image.
We need to actually add the image ourselves.
So if you click Select Image for the cover photo,
then we can actually select our own thumbnail
to put in there that's gonna show before someone plays.
So you have just add this one in.
You're gonna add in your own image.
You can get it designed yourself specifically.
We can now change the settings here
to see how it actually looks.
So this button here, Show Overlay actually puts
like an a grayish overlay over the top.
See how it does that?
So that one puts this gray overlay over the top.
This makes it much easier to see text
when you add text here.
For example, with the heading, you can put in,
watch my video here, any texts that you'd like,
and now gonna show up over the top of the video.
You see it's much easier to read
than if it doesn't have an overlay.
See that?
Depending on what the actual thumbnail is,
makes it much easier to read.
And you can change the style.
So it's actually either a video that people click to play
or it's a background to a section.
See how it just plays automatically in the background.
And then you can add some texts over it.
You can really customize this
based on how you want your store to look.
We're just gonna select image with a play button.
And then here you can adjust the actual video height.
See how tall it is,
if you wanna do smaller, it's gonna make that smaller.
And you can select the change the text size as well.
And that's pretty much everything.
That's how you actually add in your video
to your Shopify store.
And now when you go back, you can change the order
and bring this all the way to the top of your back.
And there we go.
On our site we now have a video here that we can add in
and change how it looks and it pulls straight from YouTube.
That's it guys, if this video was helpful
please give it a thumbs up
and let me know in the comments below.
If you wanna learn how to grow your e-commerce store,
I make a lot of free content here on YouTube
check out my other videos.
I make a lot of videos on Google ads campaigns,
sending up and optimizing your e-commerce store.
And it's gonna be very, very helpful for you
on your journey to becoming a successful e-comm store owner.
That's it for today's video guys.
Hope that was helpful.
I'll see you in the next one.
Bye for now.
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