Warm up the pop corn, and next time someone ask you the question about the ROI of Social Media, you should have enough info.
YouTube is a great video service by Google. As with any other product Google makes it easy to use its content on your own site. You can embed a YouTube video on your own site or query YouTube API (if you have a developer key). But what if you don’t want to embed a flash video player and you only need an image of the video. The following function returns a YouTube video’s thumbnail URL. Nothing more, nothing less.