YouTube Video Deep Linking

If you share links to YouTube, you might love this new feature. Now YouTube lets you choose exactly where in a video you want to link to by indicating the minutes/seconds on the URL link.

To specify a specific time within a video, append a tag to the end of your video link with the following syntax: “#t=1m45s” (you can change the numbers before the ‘m’ and ’s’ to edit the minutes and seconds, respectively.

For example, if you want to link 36 seconds into a “woo-wooo” portion of a Bubb Rubb video, your link would look like…

linking to 36 seconds in:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccgXjA2BLEY#t=36s

or linking to 2 minutes 0 seconds would look like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccgXjA2BLEY#t=2m0s

This is such a simple but needed feature! How else can you link right into the “woo-wooo”???

Not sure if this works with embedded videos? Anyone know?

FYI, this was spotted on TechCrunch.

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