Importing YouTube categories

YouTube provides a variety of video categories for different geographical regions. During the export, a specific category will be assigned to the exported videos.

Import categories for a region in the Content administration's "YouTube Exporter" tab:

  1. Open the "Category imports" tab.

  2. Click the "Import YouTube categories" button to open the configuration dialog:
    Import YouTube categories button

  3. In the configuration dialog, select an existing Google authentication profile.

    At least 1 Google authentication profile must be configured in the Configuration Management Application (CMA), otherwise you cannot continue. To create a Google authentication profile, follow the instructions in the "Preparing the YouTube Exporter" Customer Knowledge Base article.

  4. Once you have selected the authentication profile, set the other necessary settings for the import:

  5. Click "Import" to start importing.

  6. The configuration dialog closes, and your import is listed on the "Category imports" tab.

You can import categories for multiple regions. Simply repeat the steps for every region for which you want to import them. However, you cannot import categories for multiple regions to the same collection, nor import categories for the same region twice to different collections.

Delete a category import