How to add video to your form

Make your typeforms even more engaging and beautiful by adding video! There are three ways to add them to your typeforms: embedding from YouTube, Vimeo, or VideoAsk, or using our integrated Pexels library.

This article explains how to add YouTube or Vimeo videos, as well as videoasks. Head to our Pexels video guide for more on Pexels, and read our videoask integration article to learn more about embedding videoasks in typeforms.

Looking to add a video question instead? Take a look at our video question guide. Or maybe you want your respondents to answer with a video; if yes, check out our guide on video responses.

How to add video to your form

1. Open a typeform from your workspace, and click on the question where you want to add a video. On the right, click the + button next to Image or video.

The form editor with a question selected, highlighting the plus icon next to the Image or video settings.

2. This will open the media gallery.

The media gallery window overlay showing tabs for images and video.

3. Select the Video tab, paste the link to your video where indicated, and click Add.

The Video tab in the media gallery with a text box for pasting a video URL.

Be aware that videos cannot be set to auto-play when added to a typeform. When you add a video to a typeform, we only take the video ID to display it, ignoring URL parameters like autoplay.

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Note! YouTube Shorts links are not supported.

4. You can now choose different Layouts for the video on mobile and desktop devices. Then adjust its brightness in the right-hand panel. Click the Change icon to change the video.

The layout and design settings panel on the right side showing configuration options for video orientation and brightness.

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