YouTube

Connect your YouTube channel once and publish a webinar’s recording to it from the webinar’s After tab: the title, a description with chapter timestamps, tags from the recording’s topics, captions from the transcript, the privacy you choose and a playlist. The YouTube video can then be the Watch on demand link in recaps, the team share kit and the Content Gallery. The same connection lists your channel’s videos in Media → Discover, so you can bring them into Media to transcribe and clip.

Why use it

Your webinar recordings belong where your audience already watches: your own channel, with your branding and subscribers. Sessionboard does the production work on the way out (chapters, captions, a written description) and keeps the link in your follow-up pointing at the video people can find and share.

Connect YouTube

Open the app

Open Apps in the organization sidebar, go to the Media category and click YouTube.

Click Connect and sign in with the Google account that manages your channel. If the channel is a Brand Account, pick the channel, not your personal account, when Google asks which one to use.

Allow access

Approve viewing your channel and uploading and managing its videos. Sessionboard uploads videos, adds captions and adds videos to a playlist; it does not delete or edit your existing videos.

Publish a webinar recording

On the webinar’s After tab, under Publish the recording, click Publish to YouTube once the recording is in Media. The form is filled in from the recording:

Title: the webinar’s title, up to 100 characters.
Description: the webinar’s description followed by a Chapters list (0:00 Welcome, 6:40 Trial results, …). YouTube turns the list into chapters on the video when it has at least three timestamps, the first at 0:00.
Tags: the topics found in the recording.
Privacy: Unlisted, Public or Private.
Playlist: any playlist on the channel, or none.
Upload captions from the transcript: adds a caption track built from the recording’s transcript.
Use this video as the on-demand link: see below.

Click Publish to YouTube. The upload runs in the background, so you can leave the page; the row shows its progress, then Open on YouTube when it is done. See Follow up after a webinar for the rest of the After tab.

Use the YouTube video as the on-demand link

Turn on Use the YouTube video as the on-demand link on a published video and the recaps, the CSV export, the team share kit’s Watch on-demand button and the Content Gallery link to it instead of the recording page. A private video cannot be the on-demand link, because the people you send it to could not open it. While YouTube keeps Sessionboard’s uploads private (see the note above), use Vimeo or the recording page as the on-demand link instead.

Publish automatically

Turn on Publish automatically when the recording arrives on the After tab and pick YouTube and a privacy. When the provider’s recording has come into Media and been transcribed, it is published with the filled-in title, description, tags and captions.

Bring your channel’s videos into Media

Your channel’s uploads are listed under Media → Discover. Import a video to transcribe it, find its chapters and clip it. On the YouTube app page you can limit Discover to certain playlists.

Troubleshooting

YouTube’s daily upload quota for Sessionboard is used up: YouTube limits how many uploads one app makes per day. Click Try again the next day.
This YouTube channel has reached its daily upload limit: YouTube limits uploads per channel per day. Try again the next day.
The account refused our sign-in or Sign-in expired: reconnect YouTube in Apps.
Captions did not go through: the video is up; add the caption file in YouTube Studio, or publish again.
The upload stopped: click Try again. The upload continues from where it stopped.