If you put a video up on YouTube, who can see it? What if you want to make a video,
use YouTube for free video storage, but not let anybody see it? I'm going to show you in this
video the three different kinds of settings. "Public"; that means everyone can see it.
"Unlisted" which means people who you have sent the link to-anyone who's got that link.
And "Private" videos. Let's have a look. So, when you upload a video to YouTube you can set
the privacy settings and sometimes you might want to use YouTube just to store a video. It might be
even a test video that you've got or maybe an introduction video that you want to share with
somebody and you don't want the whole world to see it. So, what you do is when you select the video
you get to say which kind of privacy settings you've got.
So this is under visibility on my channel. Because I've got youtube ads on, I needed to get through
the checks to say that I don't have any violent content and so on. So here are your options.
You can make it public which means everyone can watch your video. Or unlisted which means that
people have got to have the link. Or private. So let's start with a public video. Can people share
the url-the link? And the answer is yes. Can it be in a channel section? Yes it can, so that
you could have it, for example, in a section or in a playlist. Does it show up in search?
Yes. So I'm happy for everybody to see this video. So that's going to be a public video. It's posted
on my channel so that if people come to my channel they will see it if they're subscribers, then
it will turn up in their subscriber feed. And, of course, they can comment on it.
Now, but what about unlisted? Unlisted is when: “hey, it's only for people who I share it with”
but then they can share it on and it can still be added in my channel section. But it's not going to
turn up in search. So, for example, supposing you want to send off a little introduction video to
somebody and you're happy for them to share it around their company. Or maybe, let's say
you're tutoring English and you want to do that introductory video about yourself. Then you
would make that an unlisted video so people are not going to come to it by searching on YouTube
but they will see it if they go through the English tutoring site. And so, unlisted videos
aren't going to show up in your subscriber feed but people can still make comments about them.
But what about private videos? Well, private videos are where you know specifically which email
address, which people you want to share it with, and they're the only ones who are allowed to see
them. Now one of the good things is that you can change the privacy settings later on. So you might
make a video and set it to unlisted and just share it with two or three people or with nobody at all
and then eventually that, let's say that you share it and people say “Wow! That's a really good
video!” You could then switch it from unlisted to public so it could potentially turn up in YouTube
search or you can do it the other way around. So I've got a public video here and I could
switch that to private. Now, when it's private, you've got to name the people's email addresses,
so here you go: share privately. And you put in their email address and that's the only way
that they're able to view your private video. They won't be able to share it with anybody else,
okay? Or you can set it to unlisted so it will no longer turn up in search. Members only: that's if
you've got membership on your channel which you may or may not have. That's not something
that I use. What if you want to delete a video altogether? Then what you do is you can go into
YouTube Studio. I've done all of this in YouTube Studio, and then you can select the video here
and then go Delete/Delete forever. I understand that deleting a video- whether it's a draft
video or what-is permanent and cannot be undone. Ouch! So I'm going to do that and then hit delete
for that video and then it's gone. It's not on my channel. Anybody who used that url, that link,
to get to it won't be able to see it any more. Now YouTube Help goes into these video privacy
settings and so to get those details check the link in the description below.