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YouTube

YouTube is a video hosting platform that allows users to upload, share, and manage videos. It provides tools for video distribution, analytics, and customization.

The following video distribution integrations are available for YouTube:

  • Upload to YouTube - upload a video to a specified YouTube channel once a rendering is done successfully.

Setup

  1. Google account - link the Google account you want to use and provide permissions to Plainly to access your YouTube.
  2. Title - define the title of the video. If you want to use a parameter from a render request as a file name, you will need to use the Integration passthrough option.
  3. Description - define a video description.
  4. Category - select a category for your video.
  5. Tags - set up tags for your video.
  6. Default language - select a language of the video.
  7. Publish at - specify a date in future at which the video will become public.
  8. Privacy status - select a privacy status of your video on upload.
  9. License - select a video distribution license.
  10. Embeddable - if enabled, viewers will be able to embed this video to 3rd party websites.
  11. Notify subscribers - if enabled, your subscribers will get a notification once a video is uploaded using this integration.
  12. Public stats viewable - if enabled, viewers will see stats of this video.
  13. Self declare made for kids - if enabled, this video will be labeled as This video is for kids. This can imply additional checks & restrictions by YouTube.

Clicking on the + button will show all available variables which you can use to customize the fields.

Read the Video distribution section to learn more about available variables.