Why didn't my YouTube videos show up on the post emailed to my subscribers?

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  mmandaro · Member · Jul 18, 2011 at 9:59 pm

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  I posted two YouTube videos into my most recent post and they show up on my blog on wordpress.com, but the format that is automatically emailed to my subscribers just has a short link for each one that you can’t even click on or anything! It’s kind of frustrating and embarrassing when I email this out to people and it’s not functional. What am I doing wrong? Please help!
  Blog url: http://handdm.wordpress.com/

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Jul 18, 2011 at 10:40 pm

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  Most email clients can play the Flash videos from YouTube, and would simply display a blank space instead of the video, so we just send out links or thumbnail images if available.

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  mmandaro · Member · Jul 18, 2011 at 10:47 pm

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  But the link wasn’t clickable in the email I received. It was just this:

  watch?v=6KqXxNf7Y8c

  And I use Gmail. Does this mean that the people who received my post via email probably can’t click a functioning link? Sorry if I seemed confused, but I am. I just want to make sure I understand so that I can post correctly for the people who subscribe via email.

  Thanks

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Jul 18, 2011 at 11:09 pm

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  It should have come through as a fully clickable link.

  Can you forward the email to support@wordpress.com and reference this thread?

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  mmandaro · Member · Jul 19, 2011 at 1:51 am

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  I just sent it!

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Jul 19, 2011 at 7:16 am

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  Thanks! I tracked it down and replied via email.