How to share your video in an email directly from Vidyard

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Brendan O'Driscoll
Who Can Use This Feature?
Self-Service Plans
Free Pro Plus
Business Plans
Essentials Growth Enterprise
On Business plans, users must have the Share videos through a connected email account permission enabled.


Share your videos via email without leaving the comfort of your Vidyard account ✉️

You can share your videos in an email to contacts, colleagues and friends directly from your Vidyard library. 

Simply select the option to connect either your Gmail or Outlook account so that Vidyard can deliver emails on your behalf. Once connected, you can use this option to deliver separate, individual emails to multiple recipients at oncethe perfect 1-to-many sharing distribution option for your videos.

You'll get notified in Vidyard when each recipient watches your video.

Share your video in an email

  1. Select a video from your library to share
  2. Open the Email Share menu
    • If you have not already connected Vidyard to your email account, select Connect an email account
  3. Enter your recipient’s email address, then edit and format your message
  4. Click on Send Email to deliver

Indicating your recipients and formatting a message before sending your video in email

Sending your video to multiple email recipients

You can also use the Email Share option to send your video to multiple viewers all at once.

Simply add more than one email address into the "To" field. Or, alternatively, copy and paste a comma-separated list of email addresses to quickly add multiple recipients.

Each viewer will receive a separate, individual email with the video (as opposed to a single email with multiple recipients on the same thread).

Adding multiple email addresses and recipients in the To field before sharing your video

Note: we recommend 10-30 recipients as an ideal and reliable number when using the Email Share option in Vidyard. If you have a larger list of recipients that you want to contact, you may prefer to share your video via an email marketing tool like MailChimp, HubSpot or others.


Connecting Vidyard to your email account (Outlook or Gmail)

Before you can share videos via email from Vidyard, you must connect Vidyard to either your Outlook or Gmail account.

By connecting your email account, you are allowing Vidyard to send emails on your behalf.

  1. Select a video from your library to share
  2. From the Email Share menu, select Connect an email accountSelecting button to Connect an email account with Vidyard
  3. Choose to connect either your Google (Gmail) or Microsoft (Outlook) Account
  4. Follow the prompts to sign in and authorize Vidyard to access your email accountChoosing either the option to connect your Google or Microsoft account with Vidyard

How to stop Vidyard from accessing your email account

You can always disconnect Vidyard from your email account at any time, by selecting Edit > Disconnect account from the Email Share menu.

Selecting the Edit button next to your connected email address to change it or disconnect the account from Vidyard

In addition, you can also sign in to your Google or Microsoft account to manage third-party apps that you’ve authorized to access Gmail or Outlook.

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