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Advanced YouTube Embed is a plugin that enhances the videos you embed in your WordPress blog. It's a feature-rich and smart upgrade to the standard YouTube embed. By just pasting a YouTube link, you'll not only get the features of YouTube's standard embed, but also extra playback options, relevant user-generated content, video reactions beyond YouTube.com comments (e.g., Google+, Reddit, and Twitter), and user-friendly video analytics support to supplement Google Analytics. Use the plugin to automatically enhance the viewer experience and engagement around the YouTube embeds you add to your blog, for free.

Install Advanced YouTube Embed and you and your visitors see the following features for each YouTube embed:

• Video Reactions - Discussions around a YouTube video you embed might be happening all over the web, not just YouTube.com. This feature allows your visitors to read them right from your blog. We have a growing list of communities that includes Digg, Google+, Reddit, and Twitter. Recent YouTube.com comments can also be displayed by the plugin.
• Timed Annotations - Now you can add annotations to a YouTube embed even if you don't own the YouTube channel. Use it to display captions, links, calls-to-action, etc at a specific time during playback.
• Chaptering (custom and smart social chaptering)
• Cropping - Set start and stop times to share just a funny or interesting part of a YouTube video.
• Instant Replay
• Looping / Auto Replay - Repeat a scene you like or the whole video over and over.
• Other DVD-like controls
• Auto HD

...All without having to alter the original video's content. Please see the YouTube embed on our home page demo to try some of these features. If you like them, come back here to download the WordPress plugin so that your visitors also see them in your existing and future YouTube embeds -- even if you use the nifty oEmbed method of just pasting a YouTube video link on its own line.

After installing, you have the option of adding our user-friendly YouTube Analytics Dashboard. It can be a great complement to other Google Analytics plugins. Try it and get answers to questions like:

• How much are your visitors actually watching the videos you post?
• How does the view activity on your site compare to other sites like it?
• What and when are your best and worst performers?
• How much do the YouTube videos you embed rely on your site for views?

There have been a few blog articles that reviewed our plugin. Here's the most recent that we've found: WP Nuggets on EmbedPlus

Finally, we love to share EmbedPlus. If you're a plugin developer and wish to integrate these extra YouTube embed features with your own plugin, contact us. Contact us if you have new smart features you'd like us to incorporate.

Note: If you don't see the extra features on your YouTube embeds, you might have another WordPress-YouTube embed plugin that needs to be deactivated first.

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