How Do I Publish A Draft Video On Youtube

Metigy allows you to create and manage video posts that get published natively to Facebook and YouTube.

The following guide takes you through uploading and publishing your content to YouTube. We also include some tips to optimise your video besides equally some useful links.

Before we behave on, i thing to note is that video posts get locked and pre-loaded 30 minutes before it is due to go alive. This is and then that YouTube has time to procedure information technology on their side – something that can have 10-15 minutes dependant on their load. It will not be 'public' but sit in a 'individual' state. Y'all tin can run across that if yous get to your YouTube Creator Studio.

Pre-Requisites for YouTube Publishing

The commencement affair you will demand is a YouTube page to upload to. Once yous've fix that up, connect it to Metigy. Y'all can read about connecting in the support article, Manage your pages.

Next is that your video is gear up to go. It tin be in near any of the well-nigh common video formats, including .mov, .mp4 and .avi. You tin go the total listing of supported formats on the YouTube support site. The file size is currently limited to a maximum of 1GB which should be enough for nearly 15 minutes of HD (1080p) video in the .mp4 format.

And one thing which is advisable is to accept a Thumbnail created for your video. This is non mandatory but recommended and nosotros let you choose a frame from the video itself if yous adopt. The dimensions are 1280px wide by 720px alpine.

Uploading a YouTube Video

Start, if you lot aren't already at that place, go to the Metigy Content Planner
Then click Create Content to launch the Content Curator
To starting time uploading the file, either click on the media panel or drag the file into the uploader to showtime uploading your video. For a listing of supported file types, read our YouTube FAQ article. You will so see a progress bar. Delight do Non close the window during the upload or the file will be lost and you'll have to start again – but Metigy volition remind y'all if you endeavour to.Note: For larger files, uploading takes longer and is dependant on your connectedness speed

Whilst your file is uploading

Whilst the file is uploading, write in your description for the video in the Add Your Text field
Set the date and time you desire to publish or employ 1 of Metigy AI's personalised best post times.
Select the YouTube Location (and Facebook if you want) you desire to publish the video to

YouTube Settings

Upload YouTube Settings Customisation for Video

In the YouTube Settings console
- enter a comma-separated list of tags or keywords you want to use. These tin can be single words or short phrases such as "Metigy AI Decision Support Software". YouTube recommends a maximum of 15 but you can add more or less if you want.
- Cull a category for the video. Annotation that this is YouTube's Category list and cannot be changed.
Select if you desire the video to be "Public" or "Unlisted"
- Public: which means it volition announced in search engines, recommendations, etc.
- Unlisted: This means users demand to know the exact link to see the final video
- Notation: It volition be uploaded every bit Individual, and and then inverse to the above option at the go-live time.

Once the Video has finished uploading

In one case the video has finished uploading, you can either select a thumbnail from the ones nosotros've generated or choose to upload your custom one
Cheque the preview console to meet check the content and make any adjustments you need to.
- Note: You can update the video equally many times every bit you need to during the process.
If yous are posting to more than one location, you can Customize the post for each platform except YouTube. All settings for this are washed through the YouTube settings panel.
Save the post in the lesser right.
- Note: If you are an administrator on the make, you tin can Approve the post from the save button.

That's it! Your video should at present be fix for review and blessing workflow inside the content planner interface.

Review, Approve, Publish

This is the workflow that helps to ensure that your content is reviewed. As an administrator, you can skip straight to approved.

But, Metigy recommends y'all try to stick to this flow to ensure your content is always reviewed, particularly when with the editing restriction outlined below.

To approve the post from inside Metigy Content Planner, refer to the
Content Condition and approving it for publishing.

Stages of a YouTube Video Upload

Once a postal service is canonical, the post will get through these stages:

Approved
- In this state, the video is ready to upload.
- You tin all the same edit and change the video. Any changes you make will revert it to draft
Pre-loading
- This occurs 30 minutes before the publish fourth dimension to ensure we have time to upload the file from our servers to YouTube'due south every bit they accept to besides process it
- It will announced in your YouTube Creator Studio simply be flagged as private and processing.
- Whilst we are processing information technology, the post becomes locked, meaning you can't make any changes.
- The processing stage is something YouTube does to any video you upload, even if done natively.
Ready
- Once it'due south uploaded and we've received the prepare response, we motion to the 'ready' land.
- It will appear in your YouTube Creator Studio every bit prepare simply will be set to individual
- Set posts can be unpublished and archive information technology if you demand to.
- Delight note that due to the complexity of editing, re-uploading and restrictions placed on united states by platforms, we practise not let editing once they are uploaded.
- If yous demand to make changes, y'all will need to un-publish the video within Metigy and create a new post.
Alive
- Your mail is now available for everyone to encounter!
- Now, allow's start promoting it!

The other status that might occur is Rejected. This means that during processing, YouTube had a problem. Larn about all of the reasons for rejecting a video and how resolving information technology.

Common Video Publishing Bug and How to resolve

Could non upload video
Nosotros effort very hard to ensure that you have a seamless experience and fault tolerant uploading. But, given the size of video files, any connection issue could impact the upload. Please be sure to brand sure you have a stable connection and that the video finishes uploading.
Token has go invalid
This means that nosotros don't have permission to upload to YouTube anymore. It can happen for a number of reasons. Read nearly managing and renewing your tokens.
Failed to upload
Metigy tries 3 times to upload any file. If it fails at that point this is commonly due to issues with their API. Nosotros volition notify y'all about why this has happened
Rejected Video
YouTube has rejected your video for some reason. Learn well-nigh all of the reasons for rejecting a video and how resolving it.

Additional Reading and Links

- How practise y'all professionally calorie-free an interview video without expensive gear?
- Navigating The Content Planner
- Understanding Social Network Connect and Tokens
- Manage your pages
- Content Condition and approving information technology for publishing
- YouTube Video Upload Processing Error Messages
- YouTube Upload Failed Error Articles
- Troubleshoot video takedowns
- YouTube Video Upload FAQs
- YouTube Creator Studio