In a surprise announcement YouTube have made several changes to their policy and code that allows embedding of videos on business and other web-sites to be even better than it has in the past The most important change is the ability to legally remove the YouTube logo from the lower right hand corner of embedded videos. Here's how to do that!

This may not sound like huge news, but it is for a large number of organizations who stay away from YouTube because they are worried about their web visitor's winding up on a page of videos about setting fire to bodily gasses or being cruel to cats. There has always been several effective strategies to prevent that (including populating a company YouTube channel), but for some the risk our weighed the value of being on the world's second largest search engine and receiving free streaming for their videos (as opposed to paying a hansom fee to a video platform vendor).

When you include Google analytics this the best free deal on the planet for video streaming right now. Real Cool TV and our new web-broadcast channel use Amazon S3/Cloudfront because we want inexpensive, very fast, but controlled distribution. We would definitely recommend this for anyone who wants to maximize exposure - way to go Google!

Here's the secret sauce:

You can remove the logo simply by adding the following variable to your embed code:

 
?modestbranding=1
 

So the new YouTube monica goes away:	And becomes this:

 
There's only one gotcha. It seems that it only works in one place in the embed string, at the begining or it does not work at all.

 
<iframe width="560" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/70MUHVjQ_ig?modestbranding=1&rel=0" frameborder="0"></iframe>