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CNN Wants to Go Viral: Enables Embeddable Videos

Written by Frederic Lardinois / August 22, 2008 11:22 AM / 12 Comments
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Starting today, CNN will allow all users to embed videos from CNN on their blogs or social network profiles. With this, CNN is following a growing trend among news organizations like MSNBC, FoxNews, and CBS. Judging from the wording of the announcement, CNN is clearly hoping to see some of its clips go viral, and with the political season in the U.S. heating up in the run-up to the November election, they might just have chosen the right time to enable this feature.

The embeddable viewer is pretty standard and currently only allows playing one single clip at 384x216. We weren't able to determine if CNN is restricting this service by geography, but at least our Canadian friends have reported that they could play play the embedded videos without a problem.

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As Erik Berlin also points out, offering embeddable video should be a no-brainer for content producers. Indeed, one could argue that the success of entertainment sites like Hulu can at least be partly attributed to the fact that their videos can be embedded. Among some of the recent converts to embeddable video are the Internet outpost for South Park, which is making clips from all episodes of the popular animated show available for embedding. MSNBC enabled embedding in January this year and both CBS and ABC announced the availability of embeddable clips from news and entertainment programs.

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  1. Excellent to see this! All of the other major news outlets allow embedding (ABC, CBS, MSNBC, Fox to some extent), so it was only a matter of time...

    Posted by: Frank Sinton Posted on FriendFeed   | August 22, 2008 2:07 PM



  2. I'm France and I am able to embeded videos from CNN and CNN International so I think there's no geographic restrictions and that's great!

    Posted by: Ludovic Trautmann Posted on FriendFeed   | August 22, 2008 2:46 PM



  3. No linux support in their flash player. How sad.

    Posted by: CheStyle | August 22, 2008 2:55 PM



  4. thank you

    Posted by: sohbet | August 22, 2008 5:10 PM



  5. Works great in Spain. A great move .....

    Posted by: hombrelobo | August 23, 2008 9:33 AM



  6. It works fine in Belgium ! no geoloc inside ...

    Posted by: damien | August 23, 2008 12:47 PM



  7. doesnt work in Turkey, :(

    Posted by: web tasarımı | August 23, 2008 3:31 PM



  8. Ten bucks says we'll have to download some no-name plugin that only works for 10% of the population.

    Posted by: Todd Andrews | August 23, 2008 5:03 PM



  9. I publish my blog from Morocco and the embedding seems to work fine from here.

    Best

    Nik Peachey

    Posted by: Nik Peachey | August 24, 2008 3:45 AM



  10. hehe olpk ,beijing.

    Posted by: asfdwet | August 24, 2008 8:03 AM



  11. thank you

    Posted by: sohbet | August 30, 2008 1:15 PM



  12. thankss youuu goood web sites.

    Posted by: güzel sözler | September 9, 2008 2:57 PM



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