How to put a video on your website without it being on YouTube
Updated: November 3, 2026
You want to show a video on your site, but not have it on YouTube: you don’t want competitors’ videos to appear when it ends, another brand’s logo, or anyone finding it by searching. The solution is to host it on an independent video service and embed it with an iframe. Here’s how.
Why not use YouTube for your website’s video
- When paused or finished, the player may suggest other videos, even competitors’.
- The logo and links take viewers away from your site.
- A public video is indexed and can be found on YouTube and Google.
- Ads and revenue are decided by YouTube, not you.
What an independent video host like Dembed offers
- Your videos don’t appear in any public catalog or search on the platform, and their pages aren’t indexed by Google.
- Each video has a random, hard-to-guess ID.
- The player shows no recommendations from other channels: it carries your color and logo.
- You earn money from monetized views, or your viewers can watch ad-free with Premium.
Step by step
- 1Create your free Dembed account and upload the video.
- 2Customize the player under Dashboard → Player: color, logo or watermark, subtitles.
- 3Open the video and copy the “Responsive” iframe code.
- 4Paste it on your site: in WordPress, in a “Custom HTML” block; in Blogger, in HTML view; or in your own code.
- 5Publish and check on your phone that it fills the width.
<iframe src="https://dembed.cc/embed/v_YOUR_ID" title="My video" style="width:100%;aspect-ratio:16/9;border:0" allow="autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen loading="lazy"></iframe>To keep the video even more private
- Share the link only where you want: without the link, nobody reaches the video.
- Turn off downloads on that video if you don’t want it downloaded.
- The file’s real addresses are signed and expire, so copying the file URL doesn’t work for sharing it outside your site.
Frequently asked questions
Dembed’s playback pages aren’t indexed. The video is only visible where you embed it or share its link.