# LinkedIn Updates Video Embeds with ‘Video Solely’ Possibility

LinkedIn’s rolled out some enhancements to its submit embedding course of, which now allow you to embed video content material in isolation, versus having to connect the entire submit in your web site.

As reported by social media analyst Lindsey Gamble, LinkedIn has up to date its submit embeds with LinkedIn branding, together with the brand new video-only choice.

As defined by LinkedIn:

“We’ve made updates to make sure that LinkedIn posts you embed on third-party websites look extra polished and are simpler to work together with. These enhancements embrace a cleaner design, a compact preview choice, and clearer acknowledgement that the content material comes from LinkedIn, serving to you construct belief along with your viewers.”

It’s not a revolutionary change, however the capability to embed video in isolation from the submit is a useful one, particularly for individuals who wish to add contextually related video clips into the physique of, say, a weblog submit.

As a result of while you’re writing a abstract of an replace (like this one), you don’t actually need to need to embed a submit that reiterates precisely what your submit is about. As such, having the ability to embrace simply the video is a extra built-in answer.

So now, while you go to embed a LinkedIn submit, you’ll be capable to select from three choices:

• Embed with much less textual content
• Embed complete submit 
• Embed video solely

LinkedIn notes which you could’t embed posts with a number of photographs, whereas solely posts that an creator has shared publicly will be embedded.

Barring these provisos, you now have some new presentation choices on your LinkedIn submit embeds. And with LinkedIn video on the rise, there could be quite a lot of video choices for contextual embeds on the platform, which can assist to each add context, and promote LinkedIn’s video choices.

You may learn extra about LinkedIn’s up to date embedding course of right here.