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I called and spoke with Constant Contact customer service to see if this feature had been added yet. They informed be that embedding videos to play directly from and email, and not open in another window, is not yet an available feature. You can ask to be put on a list that will be emailed once the feature is resolved.

As an addendum to the correct answer from Denise, I think it should also be pointed out that auto-playing a video within an email is probably NOT a feature arriving anytime soon. As an Automation Director for a Managed IT Services Provider, I spend a fair amount of time researching and staying current on security best practices. Video files can be injected with code producing ill effects like malware installs, phishing popups, etc., so auto-playing an email-embedded video introduces a huge security hole requiring a lot of extra preventative steps to maintain recipient security. It could also potentially be disabled by settings inside a recipient's mail client (i.e., Outlook, Gmail, etc.) if they have disabled such features on their end. In prior years, when we have sent videos to Constant Contact mailing lists, we just inserted a thumbnail with a link to the actual video file hosted on our website. It isn't the seamless solution you're asking about, but it is far more secure, and it is already available without having to wait for a feature release.

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