YouTube now lets you subscribe to a channel from an embedded video

YouTube launched a new update to its website two days ago allowing users to browse while watching a video at the same time. Now, the video platform is quietly rolling out another major update to the offsite YouTube experience.

The video giant is finally giving its embedded player a major overhaul — making it easier for people to subscribe to channels from embedded videos.

Now, when you come across a YouTube video embedded on a website, you will see the channel’s avatar on the top left corner, next to the title of the video on the thumbnail image. Hovering over the channel image reveals the channel’s name, subscriber count, as well as a new actionable "subscribe" button. You can also click on the channel image to open its YouTube channel page in a new window. These changes were first pointed out by 9to5Google. Read more...

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from Mashable https://mashable.com/article/youtube-embedded-video-update/
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