Connect a YouTube account to Vidyard

Connecting a YouTube account to Vidyard allows you to seamlessly share videos from your library to a YouTube channel.

When you share a video to your channel, Vidyard directly uploads the video to your account so that it plays natively within YouTube. The video will appear alongside the rest of the content in your channel's library.

Videos that you share to YouTube also sync with their counterpart in Vidyard. Changes made in Vidyard to the video title, thumbnail, description, tags and captions automatically update on the video in YouTube as well.

With select product plans, you'll also receive view counts from videos shared to YouTube. You can find video views from YouTube alongside the rest of your analytics in Vidyard.

Connect a YouTube account (Vidyard Free and Pro) 

Vidyard Free and Pro users are prompted to connect an account the first time they attempt to share a video to YouTube.

1. Click on the Share button next to a video in your library
2. Select the YouTube icon
3. Click Connect Account
   • A separate browser window will open with steps to connect your YouTube account
4. Sign in to the YouTube account that you want to connect. Review and allow Vidyard to access and manage aspects of your account as a third-party app.
   • You can always remove access to your account from third-party apps in Google's security settings

Connect a YouTube account (Starter, Plus, and Enterprise)

In Vidyard accounts with the Starter, Plus or Enterprise plan, a user with the Edit Integrations permission must set up the connection to a YouTube account.

Once set up, any users with the permission to Push videos to a YouTube account may share videos to the connected channel. Learn more about how to manage user permissions.

1. From the Vidyard dashboard, select Admin > Integrations
   • If necessary, use the Change Folder button to switch into the folder where you want the connected YouTube account to be available
2. Click Add next to YouTube
   • A separate browser window will open with steps to connect your YouTube account
3. Sign in to the YouTube account that you want to connect. Review and allow Vidyard to access and manage aspects of your account as a third-party app.
   • You can always remove access to your account from third-party apps in Google's security settings

You can also connect additional YouTube accounts to Vidyard if needed. Simply click the Add button again and sign in to the account that you want to integrate.

Delete the integration with a YouTube account

If you delete the integration with YouTube, users will no longer be able to share videos to the connected account's channel. You will also no longer receive view counts from videos shared to your YouTube account in the Vidyard Insights Dashboard.

1. From the Vidyard dashboard, select Admin > Integrations
2. Open the menu next to an integrated account, then select Delete
3. Confirm your choice to delete the integration