My site has several pages with several embedded Youtube videos each. I’ve been trying to speed up my site by replacing the videos with thumbnails that trigger the videos.
The best I’v been able to come up with is to take a screenshot of a video and edit that down to a thumbnail that links to the page where the video is embedded.
What you’ve described sounds fine to me … When you say “trigger the videos”, what do you mean? Do you mean the link takes the user to the actual YouTube page?