diff --git a/frontend/src/features/frame/components/topbar/Search.tsx b/frontend/src/features/frame/components/topbar/Search.tsx
index f765e7c6be..9d6ed2bef2 100644
--- a/frontend/src/features/frame/components/topbar/Search.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/features/frame/components/topbar/Search.tsx
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import React, { useState } from 'react';
 import { useHistory, useLocation } from 'react-router-dom';
 import { useTranslation } from 'react-i18next';
-
+import { extractVideoId } from 'src/utils/video';
 import makeStyles from '@mui/styles/makeStyles';
 
 const useStyles = makeStyles(() => ({
@@ -50,12 +50,32 @@ const Search = () => {
   const searchParams = new URLSearchParams(paramsString);
   const [search, setSearch] = useState(searchParams.get('search') || '');
 
+  /**
+   * Redirect to analysis page when `search` is a:
+   * - YouTube URL
+   * - Tournesol URL (analysis page)
+   * - Tournesol UID
+   *
+   * ...else redirect to the regular search results.
+   *
+   * It's not easy to distinguish a YT video id from a string of 11
+   * characters, so both case are treated in the same way.
+   */
   const onSubmit = (event: React.SyntheticEvent<HTMLFormElement>) => {
     event.preventDefault();
     searchParams.delete('search');
     searchParams.append('search', search);
     searchParams.delete('offset');
-    history.push('/recommendations?' + searchParams.toString());
+
+    const videoId = extractVideoId(search);
+
+    // TODO: we should pass an argument to `extractVideoId` so that raw YouTube
+    // ids are ignored.
+    if (videoId && search.length !== 11) {
+      history.push('/entities/yt:' + videoId.toString());
+    } else {
+      history.push('/recommendations?' + searchParams.toString());
+    }
   };
 
   return (
diff --git a/tests/cypress/e2e/frontend/search.cy.ts b/tests/cypress/e2e/frontend/search.cy.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..55a7956cd1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/cypress/e2e/frontend/search.cy.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+describe('Search', () => {
+  describe('with a YouTube URL', () => {
+    it('redirect automatically to the analysis page', () => {
+      const videoURL = 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6vdKFxCvfU';
+      const videoId = 'b6vdKFxCvfU';
+
+      // Intercept the request to the API
+      cy.intercept('GET', `/polls/videos/entities/yt:${videoId}/**`).as('videopoll');
+
+      cy.visit('/');
+      cy.get('input[id="searchInput"]').click().type(`${videoURL}{enter}`);
+
+
+      cy.url().should('include', `/entities/yt:${videoId}`)
+      cy.wait(`@videopoll`).its('response.statusCode').should('eq', 200);
+    });
+  });
+
+  describe('with a Tournesol video UID', () => {
+    it('redirect automatically to the analysis page', () => {
+      const videoId = 'WPPPFqsECz0';
+
+      // Intercept the request to the API
+      cy.intercept('GET', `/polls/videos/entities/yt:${videoId}/**`).as('videopoll');
+
+      cy.visit('/');
+      cy.get('input[id="searchInput"]').click().type(`yt:${videoId}{enter}`);
+
+      cy.wait(`@videopoll`).its('response.statusCode').should('eq', 200);
+    });
+  });
+});