embed youtube video not working

I am also facing the same issue.

This is the video URL I am trying to embed in my site. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksCSSWHpPww

Could you please help?

Same problem on my end, on two different sites.

The latest problem is with this video:

My experience has been that sometimes this works, sometimes it doesn’t.

The video above was live at the time I tried to embed it, and nothing happens. At all. My experience has been that some combination of deleting and recreating the embed or even the page itself, will eventually fix it. When it does fix it, it will show a low-quality thumbnail instead of the actual thumbnail. Due to that, I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s a CDN issue of some sort, so maybe WordPress is checking the wrong sources.

Also, if I try to embed a video before it’s public, it will never work, to the point where I’ll have to delete the entire page and recreate it after the video goes live in order to have the video embed. This is inexcusable, because as a content provider, I should be able to utilize the WordPress schedule feature and have every site show the content at the same time. If there’s a check in WordPress to see whether or not the video is public before embedding it, then that check should be deleted because it serves no purpose other than to frustrate people.

The WordPress YouTube embed is alpha-quality at best.