YouTube– a video-sharing platform to demonstrate the content. With a great scope of entertainment, it also provides relevant learning resources. YouTubers make a lot of effort in creating content and making it relevant to the audience. But when an embedded video finishes, there appear suggested videos. At times, these related videos create a disturbance. To avoid such videos for branding preferences or to make a good user experience, you choose to disable the more videos options. But how can you disable suggested videos on YouTube embeds? Is it possible to fully disable these suggested videos?

Suggested Videos:

On the YouTube homepage, we see videos from channels we subscribe to or videos that you wish to watch. The homepage is full of those suggested videos that you want to watch but at times, it shows those suggestions that you are not even subscribed to. It seems a little unwanted as watching subscribed channels videos on the homepage just because you are subscribed to those channels. This is where the need to disable the suggested videos comes in. Another type of related video appears at the end of YouTube embeds and these related videos are at times not even relatable.

Two Strategies to disable Suggested videos on YouTube Embeds:

To make embeds without related or suggested videos, you need to follow some strategies that help disable these unwanted videos.

Unlisted videos method:

Using the unlisted videos method you can make these suggested videos disappear. Append
“rel=0” at the end of the URL. But Maximillian Laumeister suggests that this method was useful before 2018. Today, this method is not effective when it comes to completely disabling related videos. Alan Spicer, a YouTuber, suggests sharing YouTube video links with “? rel-0” can help disable these videos but this is not always a reliable way.

YouTube Embed Code Generator:

An advanced YouTube embedder where you put the URL of your video and you find a few options. You can get a few options of autoplay or showing related videos. But going to the option of changing file size, start time aspect ratio, video quality title, uploader full screen. After completing the setting, you can go to “generate my code”. Then scroll down and copy. While embedding into blog go-to text. If you are using WordPress, copy code on it. Click on visual and you find all related videos gone. The preview shows up the suggestion for your videos at the end of your video.

Embed Plus for YouTube:

In this method, you go to the share icon below the video. At the bottom of the share pop-up, you will see the Embed link. Click it. You will find a box with some pieces of information. This information is the embed code that you will copy and paste into the web page. When you scroll down this page, you will find “Show suggested videos when the video finishes”. Unselect this. With several checks and unchecking the boxes, you will find a modified embed code. You can copy this embed code. You will find that there are no more suggested videos showing up. It means no more distractions.

HideYT:

A WordPress plugin that provides a great solution for this recurring problem. You just plug in and forget about the related video problem. there is no specific code to learn. It simply hides all suggested or related videos. It also provides a 14-days free trial with no credit card details required. This is the ultimate solution to seeing those counter-productive videos suggestion at the end of your video.

Conclusion

Using one of these methods can help you disable irrelevant content and focus on improving and creating product things for subscribers. However, it is crucial to understand that “irrelevant content” is relevant in its domain but for your channel, it is only a distraction that you probably strive to avoid. All these methods will help you be more focused and make the YouTube user experience even better.