Stage handler settings for YouTube

This article contains an overview of the different stage handler settings for a YouTube stage handler:

The section "General" is available for every stage and therefore excluded from the screenshot. It contains fields for the Name and Trigger mechanism of the stage handler, as well as the "Scope", which determines which assets will be published. With the "Recursive" checkbox, you can ensure that assets from sub-nodes of the chosen "Scope" node will also be published.

In order for the stage handler configuration to be successful, the "backstage-youtube" product extension must be correctly installed and configured on your system.

You can find the installation instructions for the YouTube Connector in the Customer Knowledge Base.

Authentication

In the "Authentication" section, you set a previously configured Google Authentication Profile in the field "Google Account". The Google Authentication Profile contains your YouTube account's credentials and is used to log into YouTube and synchronize assets.

The instructions for creating a Google Authentication Profile in the CMA can be found in the Customer Knowledge Base.

Outgoing Metadata

In the "Outgoing Metadata" section, you set the metadata for each synchronized video:

We recommend that you use the "Link to Metadata" input mode for these fields to ensure that CELUM metadata gets synchronized to YouTube and provides real value to the viewers.

Title: Specify which title should be shown for the videos on YouTube.
Description: Specify the video description. Square brackets [] or angle brackets < > are not allowed.
Tags: Add keyword tags to the videos.
Categories: Choose the YouTube category that the videos should be sorted into on YouTube.

The instructions for importing the YouTube categories in the CMA can be found in the Customer Knowledge Base.
Download format: Specify the format that synchronized assets will be converted to during upload to YouTube.
Privacy Status: Define the privacy settings for the videos on YouTube. The values reflect the privacy levels on YouTube: Public, Unlisted and Private.

Automatically add videos to a YouTube playlist

With YouTube playlist's auto-add feature and a YouTube Connector stage handler, you can automatically add synchronized videos to a dedicated playlist in your YouTube channel.

The "Automatically add videos to a YouTube playlist" article in the Customer Knowledge Base explains how.