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Daily Emails: How to create links to scheduled YouTube videos?

I send out a Daily Word email that includes a link to a Wordpress Post with a YouTube video that changes daily. Currently, my link is to a Wordpress Post. The problem with this approach is that if my email recipients do not check the Daily Word video on that same day, it will change and the email will no longer match the daily video.

My YouTube videos are initially Private. I schedule these YouTube videos to be made Public at 12:00am. However, when I create the scheduled email within Constant Contact and include a YouTube video link that is Private at that time, it will not work.

Any suggestions on how to approach this problem? I definitely would like to keep the scheduling workflow in place to help streamline the workflow.

Thanks in advance for any assistance you can offer.

Best Regards,

Danny Ciamarra

E-mail Marketing

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UPDATE: I came up with a workaround that I wanted to share.

Start a new email campaign.
Copy YouTube video URL that I want to include in my email.
Add a thumbnail for the topic to the email and include the video link.
I also include a "Watch Now" button and add the same video link. This appears to be working for now.

My desired goal, would be to add a video to my email and add the link there so people can see the play button. Less steps and a more familiar experience for my email recipients. Hope this helps others and I hope the engineers will address this in the very near future. Thank you.

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Daily Emails: How to create links to scheduled YouTube videos?

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