Clear And Unbiased Facts About HOW TO LET OTHERS CONTRIBUTE VIDEOS TO YOUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL? (Without All the Hype)
A better way to let other people upload videos to your YouTube channel
Not many people know the YouTube mobile upload feature, which can be a lifeline for bloggers and video writers who contribute in one place or who want to upload videos to the same YouTube channel, without knowing the credentials of the account.
Ask the owner of your YouTube channel to log in to your account, go to "Settings" and switch to the "Mobile Settings" tab. YouTube will provide a secret mobile upload email address, as shown below:
This is a unique email address that uniquely identifies this YouTube channel. Copy this email address and save it as a contact in your email contact book.
Now comes the real fun. When you want to upload videos to this YouTube channel, all you have to do is compose a new email message and attach the video file as an attachment. When you have finished attaching the video, enter a relevant subject line in the email message. This subject line will act as the Title of the video, while the body of the message will act as a description.
When you have finished writing the message, press the "Send" button and you're done. Your attached video will be uploaded to the YouTube channel associated with this secret email address.
Congratulations, just upload a video on a YouTube channel that does not have and the best thing here is that the username or password are not shared at all. The only problem here is that the video file size should not exceed 25 MB, because Gmail has a maximum size limitation of attachments
YouTube Direct Lite: allows other users to send videos to the YouTube channel
YouTube Direct Lite is an old project and has been live for a long time. Probably, large companies tend to perform video marketing, so YouTube Direct does not receive too many mentions. It was created so that news agencies grant users access to send videos generated by users. The idea is simple:
A user gets a web-based interface to send videos, which will be uploaded to YouTube on their channel. You will have to moderate the video before it comes out live, and you can specify in which playlist, this video will be live.
YouTube direct lite offers two ways to integrate the video loader into your site:
Hosted Auto: you host CSS, HTML, JS on your site and inactive for users with their own hosting.
Use of the reference method: you only need to insert the iframe code in your website, and the loaded video widget will allow anyone to upload the video.
I tried the second method and it is very simple to use. Next, I will describe how you can use the reference method to add a video uploader widget on your blog:
Go to this page and sign in with your YouTube ID.
You can create a new playlist or select from an existing playlist, where the video will be loaded.
After selecting the playlist, you will get the iCode box that you must add on your web page, where you want to add the uploaded video. If you are using WordPress, simply add a new publication or page, go to HTML mode and paste the code. You also get the code to embed the full playlist on the web page.
Here is a screenshot of the Youtube video uploader that was added to a web page
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You could think of many uses of the direct YouTube project from the point of view of blogs and marketing, and here are some of them:
If you work on a computer or hire someone to create videos for you, with Youtube Direct Lite, you can allow other users to upload videos to your playlist without giving access to your YouTube account. You can insert the code in a private web page and share the link of the web page with the member of your team.
You can run a video contest of user-generated content and use YT directly to allow users to send their videos.
If you have a large community around your blog, you can allow users to upload their talent using this method.
For blogs/news channels, you can allow the user to send breaking news videos, which usually become viral.
There are a few problems also associated with this method, and one of them is the authenticity of the videos. You can probably ask your readers to add a certain word (brand name) in the video, to authenticate that it was created for you.
