youtube guide – Alan Spicer – YouTube Certified Expert

So, How Do You Share a Private Video on YouTube?

Just a heads up – you can only do this from your computer for now. The YouTube mobile app doesn’t support this yet². Now, let’s get started!

Fire up your favorite web browser and open YouTube Studio. Don’t forget to sign in with your YouTube account.

Click on “Content” in the left sidebar of YouTube Studio.

Find the private video you want to share and click on “Private” in the “Visibility” column.

A menu will pop up. From there, click on “Share Privately”.

A box will appear where you can type in the email addresses of your secret club members (or just the people you want to share the video with)³.

And that’s it! The people you’ve chosen will get an email with a link to your video. They’ll need to sign in to their Google account to watch the video⁴. If you ever change your mind and want to uninvite someone, no problem. Just remove their email address from the “Share Privately” box, click “Done,” then “Save”⁵.

A Few Fun YouTube Facts

Just for fun, here are some crazy facts about YouTube:

YouTube’s short video feature, YouTube Shorts, got a whopping 50 billion views per day in February 2023⁶.

In November 2022, YouTube had 75 billion visits worldwide. That’s like ten times the world’s population!⁷.

90 percent of people visited YouTube on their phones in November 2022⁸.

In 2022, more than 2.56 billion users watched videos on YouTube⁹.

Every minute in April 2022, 500 hours of video were uploaded on YouTube. That’s a lot of cat videos!¹⁰.

In 2022, YouTube made more than 29 billion U.S. dollars from ads, which was about 11.35 percent of Google’s total annual revenue¹¹.

How To Create, Share and Collaborate With YouTube Playlists

YouTube Playlists – The secret powerful YouTube Hack

Just like on your other favorite media sharing sites like Spotify and iTunes, you can create a “playlist” on YouTube (YouTube Playlists) — which is really just a place to store and organize the videos (your own and others’). You can keep YouTube playlists private, make them public, or even share them directly with others.

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YouTube Playlists are useful for a variety of different types of users, from an individual collecting cooking videos for their upcoming dinner party to a brand segmenting its YouTube video content by topic. For example, Tasty’s YouTube playlists break up recipes by meal type, making it easier for people to browse and find what they’re looking for:

To create a playlist on desktop: Go to your Playlists page by clicking here or clicking your account icon in the top right, choosing “Creator Studio,” clicking “Video Manager” on the left, and choosing “Playlists.” Then, click “New Playlist” on the top right and choose whether you’d like to keep it private or make it public.

To create a playlist on mobile: Click here for instructions explaining how to create new playlists using your iOS or Android mobile devices.

To add a video to a playlist: If you’re adding a video to a playlist while you’re watching it, click the “Add to” icon below the video title and check the box next to the playlist you’d like to add it to.

If you want to add a video to a playlist right from your Playlists page, simply click “Add Video” and either paste in a video URL, choose a video from your uploads, or search for a video on YouTube. Once you find the video you want to add, select the “Add to” menu from that video and add it to the playlist.

Your friends can contribute to your playlists, too. All you have to do is turn on the ability to collaborate on playlists. Once you turn it on, anyone you share a playlist link with can add videos to that playlist. (They can also remove any videos they’ve added, too.)

To add friends to a playlist: Go to your Playlists page again and open the playlist you want to collaborate on. Click “Playlist Settings” and choose the “Collaborate” tag. Toggle on that collaborators can add videos to the playlist, and from there, you can send them a link where they can add videos to the playlist.

Once your friend’s been invited to a playlist, they’ll be able to add new videos to it and remove videos they’ve added in the past. They just have to follow some on-screen instructions first to confirm they want to be a contributor and to save the playlist to their own account.

When you add a video to a playlist you’re collaborating on, your name will appear next to the video in the playlist, and everyone who’s been invited to collaborate on that playlist will get a notification that a new video has been added.

So, How Do You Share a Private Video on YouTube?

A Few Fun YouTube Facts

YouTube Playlists – The secret powerful YouTube Hack

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