ACS: Embed video in Campaign

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Is it possible to embed a video in an email and for the video to play automatically?

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ACS has a video component:

But here, the video and the poster can be placed.

Check this documentation for tips and compatibility: https://www.campaignmonitor.com/resources/guides/video-in-email/

Otherwise, you can put a GIF that simulates the first frames of the video.

Note: If you send emails to 1M+ recipients and your open rate is 25%, you will have around 250,000 videos viewed in a few minutes. So make sure the site hosting the video can cope with the surge of traffic.