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Hi,
I've been working with hundreds of presentations using YouTube videos and had no trouble with ads till now (8/5/24).
I have a Premium YouTube account and have spoken with tech support at YouTube and Microsoft. The problem remains unresolved.
Help!
Alyson
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Hi Jodie,
Thank you for this.
I experimented with PowerPoint online but I found the functionality to be minimal compared to the PowerPoint local app.
In particular, at least for me, when you go to the slide with the Youtube video, the video doesn't play automatically. And, after the video plays, you need to exit the presentation to get back to the slides.
I will often start a video when I'm away from my laptop using a clicker. With PowerPoint online, I can't do that.
What I'm doing is downloading the videos and inserting them into my PowerPoint from my hard drive. It's not ideal, but it works.
I would wish for this problem to just go away, but I can't count on that. I need to prepare my presentations for the Fall semester beginning Sept 3.
Sigh...
Alyson
Hi,
How do we vote for this post of yours? I'll definitely chime in.
With our testing(I work in IT), we were able to simulate the issue everytime in the PowerPoint windows application.
If we open YouTube and select a video signed in with a premium acct,
No ads, then if you copy and paste that exact link and embed it into the PowerPoint Preso, ads play.
If you then close the PowerPoint Preso down and open it portal.office.com web portal PowerPoint, the video will play without ads again.
We did the same with our enterprise YouTube acct (via Google). We sign in and can watch an approved video without issue.
Embed that same video into PowerPoint windows desktop app and you get ‘this video is restricted’, which only comes up when you are not signed into YouTube with your authorised acct, or video not approved.
If you then close that Preso down and open same Preso in. PowerPoint online it works as it should, even if nothing changes in between.
We’ve tried multiple ways of adding with no other way than to house PowerPoint online.
We are using this as our work around, while we try to convince MSoft this is actually an issues
Hi,
Well at least it's comforting to know we are not alone in this frustration.
Best,
Alyson
Paul,
I may try Google Slides again as well.
When I last experimented with Google Slides, I was disappointed with the functionality. I've spent so much time in PowerPoint I've become attached.
Best,
Alyson