Xmailer
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  • CONTACT LIST MANAGEMENT
    • Create a contact list
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    • List X-Ray
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    • Contact Tags Manager
    • Export your contact list
    • Uploading a suppression list
    • Large suppression files
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    • GDPR Delete & Export
  • SEGMENTING
    • What you can do with segments
    • Create a segment
    • Designing your segment
    • Tag contacts in a segment
    • Export a Segment's Contacts
    • A/B test using segments
  • BROADCAST
    • What you can do with broadcasts
    • Create a Broadcast
    • Broadcast Settings
    • Choosing your email composer
    • Augment your subject line with a preheader
    • Adding your recipients
    • Schedule your Broadcast
    • Resend to non-openers automation
    • Broadcast Reporting
    • Duplicate a broadcast
    • Tag contacts who Open your broadcast
    • Resume an incomplete broadcast
    • Export Broadcast Openers & Unsubscribes
    • Cancel a broadcast
    • Cancel a broadcast funnel trigger
    • Revise tagging and funnel triggers for sent broadcasts
  • USING THE DRAG & DROP EMAIL COMPOSER
    • The Basics
      • Content Row Properties
      • Designing your email - Using Columns
      • Footer
      • Social Media Component
    • Working with multimedia
      • Adding video to your page
      • Using the image editor
      • Using dynamic images for countdown timers and personalized content
      • Search for free, high-quality stock photos in Xmailer
      • Editing Image Properties
      • Adding GIF animations & animated stickers with GIPHY
      • Adding video to your email
      • Using the File Manager
      • How to use external images in your design
    • Working with content blocks
      • Table Content Block
      • Using Internal Links in Pages
      • Working with paragraph and list content blocks
      • Using dividers and spacers
      • Letter and Paragraph spacing
      • Working with titles
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    • Settings, rows, & columns
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      • Designing with Workspace Styles
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      • Mobile design mode
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      • Configuring design settings
      • Settings, Rows, and Content: How do they work?
      • Adding a background image to your designs
      • How do I change the properties of a row?
      • Mobile Optimization Options
      • How do I select a row vs. content?
      • Undo, redo & history
      • Working with padding
      • Working with borders
      • Saving your designs in Xmailer
      • Locking content to prevent editing
  • FUNNELS
    • What you can do with funnels
    • Create a funnel
    • Choosing your funnel type
    • From Name & From Email - editing
    • Activating your funnel
    • Trigger an email funnel from a broadcast
    • Tag contacts who open your funnel messages
    • Choosing your email composer
    • Page Augment your subject line with a preheader
    • Design your automated email sequence
    • Contact Suppression and Exclusion
    • Adding a funnel to an opt-in subscriber form
  • SUBSCRIBER OPT-IN FORMS
    • What you can do with forms
    • Create an opt-in form
    • Sending to double opt-in contacts
    • Choosing your form type: floating bars, lightboxes,inline naked embedded, slide outs
    • Exit intent and display rules
    • Adding email and name input boxes to your form
    • Setting the size of your form
    • Configuring how your form displays on mobile devices
    • Configuring your mobile width
    • Add a close window X to your form
    • Adding a "No" button that closes your form
    • Tag subscribers who opt-in to your form
    • Adding "no thanks" text which closes your form
    • View your form conversion rate
    • Connect an existing form to your account
    • Adding your form to your website
    • Add opt-in subscribers to an automated email sequence
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  1. USING THE DRAG & DROP EMAIL COMPOSER
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Adding video to your email

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Last updated 1 year ago

An Easy Way to Add Content from YouTube or Vimeo

The video content block allows you to share your video content in an easy way in your emails. You only need to copy and paste the URL of your video from YouTube or Vimeo. Xmailer will do the rest: it will grab the cover image for the video, overlay a play icon on top of it, and link it to the video content.

How it works

You will find a Video tile in the Content panel. Drag it into your design to get started.

Xmailer is compatible with the following privacy settings:

  • Youtube - Public and Unlisted

  • Vimeo - Public, Unlisted

The builder supports the following aspect ratios for videos:

  • 4:3 and 16:9 (standard video formats)

  • 9:16 (YouTube shorts format)

  • 21:9 and 9:21 (CinemaScope formats)

Once you insert a valid URL, the content block will display the cover image with a play icon overlayed on top of it. You can edit the type, color, and size of the play icon to change the way it looks. Note that the builder can't access password-protected videos to get the cover image.

Select the icon type that fits your design:

Choose the color that looks best with your cover image:

Pick a size. You're all done!

Notes about embedding video in email

This feature does not embed the actual video in the email designed with Xmailer, but rather links to it intuitively.

Additionally, users tend to open emails on mobile devices. Viewing videos on a mobile device can cause substantial data usage. Not to mention they may experience a poor user experience due to data connection quality.

With everything considered, we believe we chose the approach delivering the best results.

The Content properties section will ask you to provide a video URL from or . These are the popular video hosting services that we currently support.

If you're using a YouTube video, you can also link the video starting at a specific timestamp. If you need information on how to generate this type of link, please see this .

Embedded videos in email, unfortunately, don't work very well. Many email clients do not support it. Apple has been "back and forth" on video support in iOS over the years (there are more details in this article).

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