Scheduling YouTube Video Publishing

Sometimes uploading videos to YouTube can be a bit of a trial in itself. If the video upload is very large and you’re up against a deadline then you need to leave plenty of time to send the file up to YouTube plus contingency should the transfer fail. However, if you didn’t want the video to be immediately viewable you were left trying to time the completion of the upload of your video as close to the intended release time as possible (but this would not take into account further processing time on YouTube to render other resolutions).

Hardly elegant as far as solutions go.

Anyway, you can now set a publishing time for videos you upload to YouTube. Simply go to the YouTube upload page and before you start the upload change the privacy settings in the drop down menu to Scheduled.

Uploading a Video - YouTube

Uploading a Video – YouTube

You can then select your video to upload as per normal but you will then have the option to specify a publishing time and date on the right of the screen.

Scheduled Publishing of an Uploaded Video - YouTube

Scheduled Publishing of an Uploaded Video – YouTube

Hopefully, this should help provide you some more control over the release of your videos particularly if you want to be prepared ahead of time for publishing your latest video shoot.

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