How to turn off LinkedIn Video Autorun
John Marrett
Helping mid-sized organizations increase sales and improve customer service since 1993 | #LinkedInLocal
As I browsed through my LinkedIn feed, I noticed the other day that videos are now running automatically. I don’t remember that happening before…
I did a search in the Help Center for “Video Autorun” and “How do I turn off Video Autorun”. Nothing useful was returned. I started to write Tech Support, but decided to check further first… I took a look at my settings and found how to turn it off!
Under Account & Settings, choose Manage next to Privacy & Settings:
Under Account, choose Manage video settings:
Deselect Auto-play videos that appear in your newsfeed, then Save Settings:
Not sure why LI decided to do this, there was a big hubbub over on Facebook a couple of years ago when FB suddenly turned on Video Autorun!
2016.01.25
Thanks to Wayne Yoshida who sent me a screen shot pointing out that he didn't have the same Video Settings link that I have:
Not only that, Wayne mentioned in his email that his free account doesn't have the Video Autorun "feature" that my premium account has!
Not sure what to make of this now! Is this feature being added slowly across LinkedIn? Or maybe free accounts will get Video Autorun ... and not be able to turn it off?
? John Marrett 2016; section from LinkedIn Settings ? LinkedIn
Photo from Flickr, by Nan Palmero, used under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0) license.
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I’ve been in sales, marketing and CRM consulting for over 20 years. I write occasional articles and suggestions about issues I have found in LinkedIn.
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9 年Great article John Marrett
Helping mid-sized organizations increase sales and improve customer service since 1993 | #LinkedInLocal
9 年New info in the article thanks to Wayne Yoshida: looks like free accounts don't have this "feature"!
Sales and Business at Shiva Industries
9 年You are good in trying & finding out useful information for us all. Thanks John Marrett for sharing and this is the real value addition to our connection.