Today's video is an answer to a perplexing question for people just getting started in
video and wanting to use YouTube for more than just a place to share hilarious shots
of their cats playing the piano.
I'm talking about privacy.
Not "Oh no, the NSA's watching my videos!"
kinda privacy.
That ship sailed long ago.
No, I'm talking about privacy in the sense that YouTube thinks about it.
You see, YouTube understands three different kinds of privacy and if you select the wrong
one you won't care about what the NSA can do to you.
You'll be way too busy trying to dig yourself out a crater sized mistake.
Stay tuned.
Hi, I'm Steve Washer.
Welcome to Brainy Video where we help you mix your brainy business with smart video
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So, privacy.
Now, we're all about playing safely online and privacy is one of the main tactics for
being successful at it.
So, let's look at the three kinds of YouTube privacy that you don't even want to mix up.
The first kind is what they call "public".
When you select "public" your video can be seen by anyone with an Internet connection
anywhere in the world where YouTube isn't blocked, which means the only people who can't
see your video are either like some in China or in many of the public schools in America.
So when you select public you have become, ready or not, a 24/7 broadcaster.
That's what most people want to do so that's the default selection that YouTube provides.
However, sometimes you shouldn't make your videos public.
When they're only partially done and you want to put them up for feedback on our forum,
when you want to share them only with certain people, or maybe they're sales videos which
would technically violate YouTube's terms of service, or they're videos that have been
paid for and are locked away inside a membership site.
Making those kinds of videos public would defeat the purpose of having made them in
the first place so we need another kinda privacy for this.
YouTube calls this privacy "unlisted".
With "unlisted" the video itself is not listed in YouTube's public database so it won't show
up on the right side of the watch page and it won't be counted as one of your videos
on your channel or in a YouTube subscribe widget.
With unlisted privacy anyone who has a link can see the video so it makes it very useful
for limited sharing among smaller groups of people, makes it very convenient for them
to watch, and gives you as the content creator peace of mind because this trusted group of
people will not share the video in places where you prefer they wouldn't.
Now, the last kinda privacy that YouTube gives you is called (literally) "private".
This is the most locked down.
The only people who can see a private video are people who have YouTube channels themselves
and have been invited to watch it from within YouTube's environment.
So if the video is embedded on a website but is classified as private all you'll see, if
you haven't been invited in that super secret special way, when you click on the video all
you'll see is a message that the video is private.
Great privacy, but not especially useful for about 98% of us showing videos.
But it's super useful for one other thing.
Let's say you want to publish a video on a certain day at a certain time, but you already
know you aren't going to be near a computer at that time.
Well, once your video is classified as private you can then select "scheduled" and pick your
day and time.
YouTube will then make the video public and broadcast it at the time you chose.
So, there you have it, the Brainy Video guide to video privacy on YouTube.
To find tons of clever strategies for using video behind closed doors and in the open
ones check out the free Video Brain Trust series.
'Til next time, I'm Steve Washer with BrainyVideo.com.
(I can't believe I had the microphone off for the entire first take of that thing.
Yes, mister video had mister audio turned off.)