Please watch How to Share Private YouTube Videos 2020: -. To everyone else, the video will be invisible. Before you can share a private video, you need to link your YouTube channel to a Google Plus account. Once linked, simply type the names of your select viewers in the field below Privacy Settings or choose a Google Plus circle with which to share your video.
According to Youtube You Can Share It With A Maximum 50 People's If you'd like to share one of your videos with a select and limited audience, you can do so by setting your video to private. Once the video's set to private you'll be able to share it with fifty other users.
YouTube is the most popular site on the Internet for uploading your personal and professional videos for the world to watch. With so many people browsing through endless amounts of videos and having access to whatever content you’ve uploaded, it’s important to know what privacy settings YouTube offers its users and how they can use them to protect their material.
Here are six things to keep in mind about YouTube’s privacy settings when you sign up for an account and upload videos to it. They’ll help you protect your identity and keep up a positive online profile. With more than 1 billion unique users and more than 6 billion hours of video watched each month on YouTube, there's no telling what to expect. It's best to protect yourself and adjust your privacy settings.
1. Keep Videos Private
It’s tempting to showcase your videos to the world, especially if you have something unique, odd, or funny that you think will attract peoples' attention. After all, YouTube is responsible for making random videos worldwide hits. As intriguing as this sounds, it’s best to keep a lot of your videos set to private so only a select group of people (up to 50) can view them. This is especially important if you’re a professional and need to uphold a reputation.
If you want to set your videos to private, follow these easy steps:
Visit your Video Manager Find the video you’d like to set to private and click the Edit button In the “Privacy Settings” drop-down menu, select Private Click Save Changes
2. Set Videos to “Unlisted”
If you want to showcase your video to more than just a select 50 people, but don’t want the video listed to everyone in public, then you’ll want to set your videos to “unlisted.” What this means is that anyone with the direct web address can watch the video, but without this address the videos are impossible to find. They don’t show up on your YouTube channel, in search results, or anywhere else on the site.
If you want to set your videos to unlisted, follow these easy steps:
Visit your Video Manager Find the video you’d like to set to private and click the Edit button In the “Privacy Settings” drop-down menu, select Unlisted Click Save Changes
3. Adjust Account Privacy Settings
YouTube is an interactive website, and your videos aren’t the only thing you need to protect from the prying eyes of the public. Whether it’s liking videos, subscribing to them, or your contacts sending you messages and sharing your videos, it’s important to stay proactive in making sure you know who can track what you like and watch.
If you want to set your account privacy settings, follow these easy steps:
Click on your avatar and select YouTube Settings On the next screen, click on Privacy at the top left
On this screen you’re able to set up and check your account privacy settings. Under “Likes and Subscriptions,” you can check the box to make sure any videos you like and any channels you subscribe to stay private and confidential. Under “Search and Contacts,” you can control who can contact you, share your videos, and find you by email address.
4. Edit Account Profile
Whether someone is on their mobile device, tablet, laptop, or desktop computer, people have access to your personal information if you share too much or don’t protect it. When filling out details including your name, age, company, interests, and uploading a profile picture, remember to only divulge information that can’t be used against you. Also, make sure that your cable internet service is protected by passwords so spyware cannot gain this information.
Leave email addresses and phone numbers out of these sections to avoid spam. If you don’t want to show any information, simply leave the fields blank (YouTube doesn’t make it mandatory to offer information on your public profile).
5. Control Channel Activity
If you choose to keep your videos and content public, then you may attract people who don’t agree with what you’re posting and may spew insults and span your YouTube channel. It’s important to stay proactive in previewing and approving comments, video responses, and ratings if you want your channel clean and free from negativity. This prevents unsuitable comments from being published and deters posters from accessing your channel and doing it again.
If you want to disable or preview and approve comments, follow these easy steps:
Visit your Video Manager Find the video you’d like to edit and click the Edit button Click Advanced Settings Adjust your preferences under the “Comments and Responses” tab Click Save Changes
If you selected to preview and approve comments, continue:
Under “Allow Comments and “Allow Video Responses” select Approved Click your Username in the top right corner Click Inbox Click Comments on the left side of the page
6. Check Your Account and Report Abuse
Last but not least, you want to check your account often and make sure you update your settings according to your preferences. Log out of your account and check your page as a public user to see what's being accessed and what’s not. Also, if you notice bad behavior and abuse, make sure you report it. YouTube is a community, and if there’s harassment, inappropriate remarks being made, or if someone is violating your privacy, site administrators need to know about it. Use this tool to do so.
YouTube is the giant that we all think of when it is time to publish our videos or those of our students. And while it can be an appropriate choice for publishing your videos and your students’ videos, it’s not ideal for every situation. Fortunately, there are some other convenient ways to share videos privately and publicly. There are the alternatives to using YouTube that I recommend more often than any others. Those are Google Drive, OneDrive, and Flipgrid.
How to Share Videos Through Google Drive
This is a great option for schools that use G Suite for Education. You and your students can upload videos to Google Drive and then share them as you would share any other file. You can use the advanced sharing options (hidden in a little menu on the sharing pop-up box) to prevent downloading of the videos. Of course, once a video is in Google Drive you can share it via Google Classroom. Finally, if you’re looking to showcase a collection of videos in one place, you can insert them directly into a Google Site. This video will show you how to share a video through Google Drive. This video demonstrates how to place videos in Google Sites.
How to Share Videos Through OneDrive
In some ways I prefer sharing videos through OneDrive to doing the same through Google Drive. That is because OneDrive provides options to set a password for accessing shared videos and provides an option to set an expiration date on a shared video. Watch my short video to see how you can use OneDrive to share videos publicly and privately.
How to Share Videos Through Flipgrid
The Google Drive and OneDrive options are available for teachers and students. The Flipgrid option is a good one for teachers who want to publish short (under five minutes) videos for their students to watch in a closed environment. You can upload your video to have your students view it in your classroom grid. Here’s a demo of how to do that.
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