Add in-document videos in Dropbox DocSend

Overview

Videos are a great way to incorporate visuals into your documents or PowerPoint presentations. Adding Vimeo or Youtube videos as hyperlinks to your documents, or directly embedding video files into PowerPoint presentations, will provide your visitors with a seamless viewing experience. When the visitor plays your video, you’ll also be able to track those clicks through In-Document Link Clicks. Check out the visitor experience by visiting our DocSend Video.

Add videos as hyperlinks

Videos added as hyperlinks, using Youtube or Vimeo video URLs, will play within the document viewer. In the same way, if you upload a PowerPoint with an embedded video file, the video will now be fully displayed within the slide with full video playback functionality.

We recommend hyperlinking your video to anchor on text or an image for a professional look. Hyperlinking a screenshot of the video is ideal since it functions as a preview of the video, for example:

To add hyperlinked videos as screenshots, follow the steps below: 

1. Take a screenshot of your video. Add the screenshot as an image to your document. Tip: We recommend the hyperlinked video is on its own slide to help improve document tracking.
2. Add the video URL as a hyperlink to your image.
3. Save and upload your document.

Track In-Document Video Clicks

Visits to hyperlinked videos/content will be visible and captured under each visit on the recent activity page as In-Document Link Clicks that highlight the page and URL your visitor accessed. To access this information, expand the Visit Details icon next to each visit, as shown below:

Things to consider

• While unlisting Youtube videos or adding a passcode on Vimeo video uploads will add privacy, unlisted videos will play outside of the DocSend document viewer on a separate tab. 
• Videos hosted on Wistia, JW Player, Brightcove, VidYard, and other video services may also be hyperlinked. However, these services will not play directly through the document viewer and instead will play on a new browser tab.
• Video uploads such as .mp4 files can be shared on DocSend. For more information, check out the DocSend Video Player article.
• Existing PowerPoint files containing embedded videos that were uploaded before March 18th, 2025 will not have the capability to play videos within the slides.
  
• Supported embedded video files that work with PowerPoint include: .m4v, .mov, .mp4, .mpeg, .mpg, and .webm.
  
• When Watermarks are enabled, embedded videos are not supported.