That is the link to the Google Drive image viewer, rather than a link to the image itself. If you check the URL for the image when you visit that link, you get an URL like: blob:https%3A//drive.google.com/32efcf38-d7e6-4656-9046-eede4c4880f9 That's not useful. You need to do a little URL manipulation of your original URL to be able to hotlink it. You need to take your original URL, which looks like this: https://drive.google.com/file/d/{file-id}/view?usp=sharing And change it to this: https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id={file-id} So, in your specific case: https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=0B-NH9wCC0oM4U2x2WTZ3ZkJ1a1k And now you should be able to see your image: ![](https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=0B-NH9wCC0oM4U2x2WTZ3ZkJ1a1k) Of course, the "sharing" setting for the image _must_ be set to "public on the web". (Which you've already done.) [![Google Drive share menu][1]][1] This URL manipulation is _completely_ undocumented in the Google Support documentation. As such, ***you are duly warned that this method may stop working***. You might want to find a more stable image storage solution. Imgur is purpose-built for this sort of thing, but there are plenty of other alternatives. Credit where credit is due: I found this solution on the [Google Operating System](http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2013/02/permalinks-for-google-drive-images.html) blog, which in turn found it at this question on Stack Overflow: [Displaying files (e.g. images) stored in Google Drive on a website](http://stackoverflow.com/q/10311092/21960). [1]: https://i.sstatic.net/lDCaR.png