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February 24, 2021

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* Themes
* 2021-01

# The external\_video Liquid object now supports YouTube and Vimeo videos

Shopify now supports adding embedded Vimeo videos to products, leveraging the `external_video` object.

Many `ExternalVideo` API implementations assume that all external video objects represent YouTube videos. To avoid any complications arising from this change, version 2021-01 and earlier of our APIs don't return `ExternalVideo` objects that represent Vimeo videos.

You can access Vimeo videos using the [unstable](https://shopify.dev/docs/storefront-api/reference/products/externalvideo?api%5Bversion%5D=unstable) version of our APIs. We will also be introducing the ability to detect the video host in 2021-04.

Learn more about Liquid [media filters](https://shopify.dev/docs/themes/liquid/reference/filters/media-filters) and the [`external_video`](https://shopify.dev/docs/themes/liquid/reference/objects/external-video) object on Shopify.dev.