YouTube is a household name - over 500 hours worth of videos are uploaded every minute. Some of those videos feature your speakers, and you want to upload these to your event as Pre-Recorded or Replay content. You've come to the right place!
Top tip: Don't forget about privacy. It's always important to understand your chosen video provider's privacy settings, including sharing options, and whether or not they suit your needs. Be sure to check out the help docs of the providers you are planning on using.
1. Access Your YouTube Video: Click the video you wish to work from Your Channel or Your Videos folder.
2. Identify Your Video ID: Your video ID is the unique string of characters that comes after "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=" In our example, it appears as "SKlLBHbns5E."
3. Uploading your Pre-Recorded Talk: Here's a helpful article to help you with the step-by-step guide.
4. Preview Your Video: You can always review your video by visiting the Preview Page. For a detailed guide on how to do this, please refer to our step-by-step article.
When attendees join your talk, the video will start playing from a specific point, calculated based on the actual elapsed time since the talk's scheduled start. You can learn more here.
Attendees having issues viewing the content?
Make sure that the privacy settings on YouTube for the video are set to 'Unlisted' or 'Public'. We also recommend checking that you've enabled the setting "Allow embedding" in your YouTube video settings under Studio > Videos > Details > More Options.
For video tutorials on locating your video ID, click the link below:
Using YouTube for Pre-Recorded Talks