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YouTube Broadcast Yourself
Posting videos on YouTube is seen by video podcasters as the ultimate weapon in their social media arsenal. Google owned YouTube leads the ranks of online video content providers and currently serves a previously unsurpassed 12 billion views a month. When I created my YouTube account, naturally my first instinct was to connect and enable autosharing with my Twitter account. After all I’m a confessed Twitter addict, so why wouldn’t I want to Tweet my uploads as they go live? Soon I realized that I was Tweeting all of my YouTube activity, not just my uploads. Personally, I’m more of a “techie tweeter” and I don’t think my followers are interested in knowing each time I “like” one of the 110 (I’m exagerating) adorable videos of Sweet Baby Kassie uploaded by my bff @JustKissie.
YouTube Activity Sharing Settings
If you’re like me and want to have more control over what’s being shared from YouTube on Twitter, FaceBook, Google Reader and maybe even one day Google Plus, you should tweak your YouTube Account settings.
Here’s how-to get it done UPDATED SEPTEMBER 2012:
- Remember to login to YouTube in order to locate the account settings menu
- At the top right use the pull down menu next to your user name
- Select Account
- From the menu on the left select Account Settings
- Un-check your options for Sharing
The Activity Sharing menu has several options for YouTube activity that you wish to share or not. The image reveals my current settings but of course the “control” decision is yours. Now that you know how to update your setting you can always come back and adjust them when necessary, just be sure to click Save Changes.
Remember the Activity Sharing setting don’t prevent you from sharing your uploaded content directly from the video’s webpage, and it only takes a few seconds. Take advantage of this tip and consider it just one of many online reputation management tools.
Let me know if this tip is helpful to you or if you have a tip you would like to share.
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Great tip, Ileane.
Like you, I want full control over what is shared and when it goes out. I’ll be certain to set and save the options accordingly. I don’t have any videos out there yet, but that will soon change.
Thanks for sharing this.
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April 17, 2010 at 7:00 AM
Hi Jimi, I was hoping you would see this. I’m really anxious to see the upcoming videos you have planned. I’m glad this was helpful. Thanks!
Twitter: JustKissie
April 18, 2010 at 11:37 AM
Sadly, you “think” you’re exaggerating….she’s not even three weeks and I’m very close to #110!
Because I’ve been uploading videos and became interested in becoming a YouTube partner, I’ve been studying the basics.
I’ve also connected with a couple of people on there …educating about more or upcoming (beta) YouTube happenings and promises.
Now let me go check out this Sweet Baby Kassie link!
I appreciate the plug!!!
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Twitter: Basicblogtips
April 19, 2010 at 2:10 AM
Hey Kissie, please keep me posted on your progress. It’s my pleasure to link to Kassie! Can’t wait to see her in person.
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I’m not sure why I would disable sharing, after all that’s why I put up all those videos on YouTube, for everyone to view. Do you mean you disable sharing to keep people from knowing what videos you look at on YT? Sorry, I’m not seeing the issue very clearly.
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April 24, 2010 at 2:18 AM
Hi Dick, great question. I think that how much you share from YouTube is a personal decision. When I had sharing options turned on with Twitter, each time I liked a video or subscribed to a channel it was being announced on Twitter. So my Twitter stream for that day was filled with likes of Baby Kassie, my nieces and nephews, and other personal things that I’m sure my followers weren’t interested in. In fact this post was inspired by a fellow that was apologizing to his Twitter followers because he’d just uploaded 10 videos from a recent visit with his Aunt in Nigeria and each upload sent out a tweet. He had no idea how to stop the Tweets from going out.
Bottom line is, if you want all of your activity to be shared that’s fine, but if you ever want to change those settings in the future and you can’t remember how, just stop back here and give me a shout out.
Hope that clears things up, let me know.
Great tip, Ileane! I didn’t know I could control how much was shared. I don’t hang out on YouTube a whole lot, but I when I’m there I often subscribe to stuff. I don’t think I want Twitter blasting everyone when I go on a subscription or ‘like’ frenzy!
Thanks!
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April 28, 2010 at 7:44 AM
Hey Erica, I’m glad you found the tip helpful. Thanks.
What is turning auto sharing off useful for? I’m not really familiar with this YouTube feature. Sorry if I sound like a complete idiot who doesn’t know anything about YouTube.
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April 28, 2010 at 11:29 PM
Noah, if you have a YouTube account, you can share all of your YouTube activity on Twitter, Facebook or your Google Reader. Some of the things you can share are:
Upload a video
Subscribe to another user’s YouTube channel
You can also rate a video (up or down)
Comment on a video
Favorite a Video
So as you can see, sharing your activities can be annoying to your Twitter followers or Facebook fans depending upon how often you share.
I hope this answers your question, if not let me know. Thanks.
Thanks for this Ileane, I’m actually in the process of learning about video blogging. Learning as I go along I suppose.
I’m not that confident to face the screen and is more used to editing videos than actually being on a video.
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Twitter: Basicblogtips
April 29, 2010 at 8:58 AM
Screencasting will be perfect for you then. That way you never need to show yourself on camera if you don’t want to. Let me know what you need help with.
turning off sharing has been useful for me on some corporate presentations where I only needed to have something quickly uploaded and do away with the lousy comments seen on youtube
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April 29, 2010 at 8:56 AM
Hi Archon Digital. I have site that you will love using for presentations. It will show the YouTube video on a page all by itself’s (no comments, no related video or anything else). Check out http://quietube.com/ and let me know what you think.
Never really cared about youtube settings.
Now that you mentioned it, it reminds me of my youtube account that i have many important videos uploaded.
Thanks for this Ileane!
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Oh wow, I think I’m guilty as charged of Tweeting every time I liked a video on YouTube. Thanks for showing me how to fix the settings. You’re the best
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January 31, 2011 at 3:20 PM
Thanks, I like sharing everytime I post a video but realized that it wasn’t set to feed Facebook when I checked again.
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Twitter: Ileane
February 1, 2011 at 6:39 AM
Hey Justin, I noticed that you were sharing every time you subscribed to a channel and I wasn’t sure if you realized all of those tweets were going out. Hope you found the post helpful. Talk to you soon!
Hi,
I stumbled upon your site looking for a way to disable very ugly tweets from my youtubes. Are there any ways???
Thank you.
Clare
Twitter: Ileane
August 15, 2012 at 10:34 AM
Clare,
Do you mean disable ugly comments? from your videos?
Yes you can delete comments. No you can’t remove tweets.
Hope that helps!
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