Videos

Applicable sites

Video hosting platforms and websites where video content predominates.

What it adds to search results

Contains thumbnails and titles of videos that match the search query. Also indicates the name of the source where the video is published. When viewing on mobile devices, previews of short videos may be shown.

How to set it up

Such responses are generated automatically, no additional data submission is required. Yandex indexes publicly available videos that it finds on the internet. Search for videos hosted on your site can be improved.

If you host videos using embed (iframe) technology, i.e., without redirecting to the source site, then to display the player from your site, you must enter into a special agreement on information cooperation with Yandex. The owner of the source site must also give permission to display their video on other sites. For details, see Changes in Yandex video search operation.

When Yandex finds a video matching the search query on multiple resources, the sources may be grouped. For details, see Combining video duplicates.

There are no maximum or minimum limits on the number of video clips. We can handle any number and volume of your video clips, as well as take into account the growth of your video database.

Page updated: April 21, 2022.