Embedding this video to text widget?

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  asbfyouths · Member · Jul 24, 2014 at 9:19 pm

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  Hi,

  I am trying to do this for a charity;

  the website i created the video on is here: http://www.powtoon.com/show/bZWbD6Ir4HF/ambulance-youth-supporters/#/

  I need to get this video on my website in the what we do text widget on the front page and also near the bottom on the about us page?

  Any help will be greatly appreciated,

  Thank you in advance

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · Jul 24, 2014 at 9:21 pm

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  The video embeds that WordPress.com supports for all of our blogs – no upgrade required are found here.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/videos/

  Video shortcodes are here http://en.support.wordpress.com/shortcodes/#video

  The VideoPress upgrade allows you to upload videos from your computer for hosting and playback directly within your blog (or on another site you can designate). http://en.support.wordpress.com/videopress/ However, if you upload them to youtube or another supported video source site then you do not need the upgrade.

  For a Flash workaround for unsupported video sources see here > http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2010/07/22/gigya-shortcode-3-widgets/

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  asbfyouths · Member · Jul 24, 2014 at 9:23 pm

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  I dont really understand that to be honest.

  Can anyone else please help or be a bit more specific. I am new to making websites.

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  timethief · Member · Jul 24, 2014 at 9:28 pm

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  Bloggers are readers and if they do not have good reading comprehension skills they will dead in the water of the blogosphere. I can’t dumb down what I posted any further than I already did above . There are only some sources of videos that WordPress.COM supports. Click the links I provided and read what you find at them please.

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  timethief · Member · Jul 24, 2014 at 9:30 pm

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  The source you posted above is NOT a supported video source. For a Flash workaround for unsupported video sources see here > http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2010/07/22/gigya-shortcode-3-widgets/

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  timethief · Member · Jul 24, 2014 at 9:32 pm

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  All support documentation is at this link http://support.wordpress.com
  Type text widget into the searchbox and click
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/?s=text+widget
  Results http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/text-widget/

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  asbfyouths · Member · Jul 24, 2014 at 9:32 pm

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  I checked that but that is what i do not understand.

  Sorry to be awkward but i am learning.

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  timethief · Member · Jul 24, 2014 at 9:35 pm

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  Is the source of your video ie. where you made it listed at http://en.support.wordpress.com/videos/ ?
  The answer is no. That means that video is not supported. For a Flash workaround for unsupported video sources see here > http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2010/07/22/gigya-shortcode-3-widgets/