> ## Documentation Index
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# How to Embed and Play a YouTube Video on a Slide

> Embed a YouTube video into your presentation so it plays on both your presenter screen and your audience's own smartphones.

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

## Adding a YouTube Slide

<Steps>
  <Step title="Choose your video">
    Choose the YouTube video that you want to play on AhaSlides and copy its link.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Paste the link">
    Paste the link of the YouTube video into the **YouTube link** field.
  </Step>

  <Step title="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.
  </Step>
</Steps>

<Note>
  Your audience will need to click the Play button on the video themselves.
</Note>

## Embedding a YouTube Short

<Steps>
  <Step title="Open the Short">
    Open the YouTube Shorts video.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Copy the URL">
    Click on the URL in the browser's address bar.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Replace the word">
    Replace the word **shorts** with **watch** in the URL, then press Enter.
  </Step>
</Steps>

<Tip>
  The Shorts link converts into a regular YouTube watch link, which you can then embed into AhaSlides as above.
</Tip>