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A YouTube slide plays a YouTube video directly inside your presentation — on your presenter screen, and optionally on your audience’s own smartphones too.

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Adding a YouTube Slide

1

Choose your video

Choose the YouTube video that you want to play on AhaSlides and copy its link.
2

Paste the link

Paste the link of the YouTube video into the YouTube link field.
3

Show it on audience devices (optional)

Check the box Also show on audience’s smartphones if you want the YouTube video to also be shown on the audience’s smartphones.
Your audience will need to click the Play button on the video themselves.

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Embedding a YouTube Short

1

Open the Short

Open the YouTube Shorts video.
2

Copy the URL

Click on the URL in the browser’s address bar.
3

Replace the word

Replace the word shorts with watch in the URL, then press Enter.
The Shorts link converts into a regular YouTube watch link, which you can then embed into AhaSlides as above.

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