## **🔍 Overview**

If you've embedded a YouTube video in a blog post inside **Content Studio** and it looks fine in the editor, but doesn't appear on your published blog in **Website Studio**, a simple republish is usually all it takes to sync the content and render the video correctly on your live site.

## **🧠 Why This Happens**

Website Studio caches your blog content at the time of publishing. If you embed or update a YouTube video in Content Studio **after** the blog was originally published, those changes are not automatically pushed to your live site. You need to republish the post to force Website Studio to pull in the latest version of your content, including the embedded video.

## **✅ How to Republish Your Blog Post**

1. In the left sidebar, click **Website Studio** to open the website builder at **/website-studio**.
2. Locate your blog project and open it.
3. Navigate to the blog post that contains the YouTube video.
4. Make a minor edit to the post if needed — for example, add a space or update a word — to mark the content as changed. This is not always required, but it ensures the platform registers new content.
5. Click **Submit** to republish the blog post to your live site.
6. Wait 1–2 minutes, then open your published blog URL in a new browser tab.
7. Hard-refresh the page by pressing **Ctrl + Shift + R** (Windows) or **Cmd + Shift + R** (Mac) to clear the browser cache.
8. Confirm the YouTube video is now rendering correctly.

## **🎥 Make Sure the YouTube Embed Is Set Up Correctly**

Before republishing, double-check how the video is embedded in Content Studio. An incorrect embed can prevent the video from displaying even after a republish.

- **Use the embed code, not a plain URL:** In YouTube, click **Share → Embed** and copy the full `<iframe>` snippet.
- **Paste as HTML:** In Content Studio, switch your blog editor to **HTML / Source mode** before pasting the embed code so it is not treated as plain text.
- **Avoid privacy-restricted videos:** If the YouTube video is set to private or unlisted with restricted embedding, it will not play on external sites. Make sure the video's embed permissions are enabled on YouTube.

## **🛠️ Still Not Showing After Republishing?**

If the video still does not appear after following the steps above, try the following checks:

- Confirm the blog post status shows as published and not draft inside Website Studio.
- Test the live blog URL in a different browser or an incognito window to rule out a local cache issue.
- Check that the YouTube video itself is publicly accessible and embeddable by testing the embed on a standalone HTML page.
- If your blog is hosted on a custom subdomain, allow a few extra minutes for DNS and CDN propagation to complete before the update appears.

## **💬 Need More Help?**

If you need further assistance, open the chat widget in the bottom-right corner of the platform and type **human teammate** to be connected with a member of our team.