- YouTube allows a video uploader who marked their video as confidential to send up to 25 private URLs which will allow these users and only those users to watch those videos. However, there’s 1 issue for this, and it’s than any of those users may re-upload your video as a public video.
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You can upload a video on YouTube for the whole world to see, but sometimes you just want to share a video with a more limited audience due to privacy reasons. For this purpose, YouTube offers the “Private” video upload option.
The “Private” upload option comes with some restrictions. The private link can be only shared with up to 25 people using their email address, and they need to have a YouTube account to see the video. This is a private link for demonstration.
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In this tutorial, we are going to show you how to upload a private video and also make an already published video, private.
In order to share a private video, you need to go to YouTube Studio in a web browser (you can't do this using the mobile app) and choose to share the video with specific users via their email.
Method #1: Upload a Private Video
To upload a private video, open YouTube and click on “Upload” located at the top right corner next to search bar.
You will see an option to upload a video using “Open” dialog or drag and drop the video right in the middle to upload. Below, you will see a drop down menu that should be set to “Public”. Click on it and from the menu select “Private”. Now, any video you will upload will be private.
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Just select any of the available methods to upload the video. Once uploaded, you will see a drop down menu on the left with status “Private”, and below it you will see a text field where you can add people with whom you would like to share the video.
You can add people from your Google+ circles or just add their email address to share the video. Remember, you are only allowed to share video with up to 25 people and once shared with a single email address, it cannot be reverted.
When your are done configuring, click on “Done” located at top left corner of the window and video will be shared.
Method #2: Make Published Videos Private
If you already uploaded a video in public status, then you can also make it private or vice versa. Click on main menu button located next to YouTube Logo (with three horizontal lines icon). From the menu, click on “My Channel” to access all your Channel settings.
Here, you will find an option of “Video Manager” located at top under the search bar, click on it. On the next page, you will see all your uploaded videos, click on the “Edit” button on the video of which you would like to change status.
All settings related to the video will open up, below the video you will see a drop down menu with “Public/Private” written on it. Just select the desired option from the drop down menu and click on “Save changes” at the top right corner to save it.
There are total three stages where you can change the video status. Before the upload, after the upload and once the video is published. So even if you didn’t change the status at first stage, you still change it any other step.
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While you can upload Videos on YouTube for the whole world to see, YouTube also provides you with the option of making your Videos private. Good thing about this option is that you can choose to Share Private Videos on YouTube with selected people and they won’t be able to share or distribute your Private Video to Others.
Upload Private Videos to YouTube
Follow the steps below to upload a private video to YouTube from a laptop or desktop computer.
1. Open YouTube on your Laptop or Desktop Computer
2. Next, click on the Upload button located at top right corner of your screen.
3. In case you are not logged in, you will be asked to login to your Google account
4. Next, you will see the options to upload Video to YouTube – By dragging and drop, clicking on the Up Arrow and also other options like importing Videos from Google Photos (See image below).
5. Below the Up Arrow you will see the option to choose privacy settings for the video, make sure that you choose Private option.
6. Next, Click on the Up Arrow, this will allow you to Choose the Video to upload from the desktop of your Computer or any other location on your computer.
7. Choose the Video to upload by clicking on it and wait for the video to be uploaded to YouTube.
8. After the Video is uploaded you can make changes to it by clicking on Basic info, Translations and Advanced Settings Tabs and click on Done to confirm the changes. (See image below).
Share Private Videos On YouTube
How To Post A Private Video To Youtube
Now that your Private video has been uploaded to YouTube, you can share this Private Video with your friends or relatives by inviting them to view your Private Video.
How To Post A Private Youtube Video
1. Immediately after you click on Done in step 7 above, you will see the following Screen.
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2. Click on the Share button to go to the next screen where you will be able to add the emails of people that you want to Share this Video with (See image below)
3. After adding the email addresses, click on OK.
YouTube will send an email to your invited recipients with a link to the video. Your contacts will only be able to access the Private Video by clicking on the link in the email, and only if they are logged into their Google Account.
Share An Existing Private Video on YouTube
The steps are different in case you want to Share a Private Video that you had uploaded to YouTube a while ago.
1. Go to YouTube on your Laptop or Desktop Computer
2. Next, click on the Sign-in button located at the top right corner of your screen.
3. After signing into your YouTube Account, click on your profile picture to open a menu (See image below)
4. From the Menu that appears, click on Creator Studio button (See image above)
5. On the next screen, click on Video Manager tab to see the videos that you had uploaded to your account.
6. Select the Private Video that you want to Share and click on the Edit button located next to the Video (See image below)
7. On the next screen, click on the Share button (See image below)
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8. Next, you will see a Share with others popup screen where you can add the email addresses of the recipients that you want to share the Private Video with.
9. Add email addresses of the contacts that you want to Share the video with and click on OK.
10. Your contacts will receive an email from YouTube with a link to your Private Video.
As mentioned above, your contacts can only view the Video by clicking on the link to your private video and only while they are logged into their Google Account.