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Unable to domain restrict private YouTube videos using a brand account
YouTube has an option for domain restricted videos, but it's only available for Google Business, Education, and Government accounts.
Google Apps users who use their Google+ identity in YouTube will ...
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Why are my comments collapsed on YouTube
You've been caught spamming!
Comments are supposed to be related to the video they are attached to, and advertising another channel is most likely irrelevant to the discussion.
Solution: save ...
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How do I add YouTube Handle (link) to Facebook?
I found a way to crack this. Add a "+" sign before the handle you enter in the Username field when editing the Youtube social link of your Facebook business page, e.g.:
+@utifulapp
:)
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How to cancel “Hide user from channel” on Youtube comment?
You can find your hidden users in the YouTube Studio > Settings > Community
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Anonymous YouTube channel under personal Google account
As far as I can tell, if I would make this new YouTube channel it would appear totally anonymous despite being managed by my personal account. Is this correct?
yes.
A side concern is that I have ...
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Unable to domain restrict private YouTube videos using a brand account
I can reproduce this issue. The problem is the brand account. On your individual account you do have the domain-restricted video option, but not on the brand account.
I do not know if there is way to ...
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Is it possible to load a dynamic video or playlist into the "featured" player of a YouTube Channel using URL parameters?
No.
You cannot "link-load" a video into the player. In general, the entire concept of a fully branded landing page on YouTube has been discontinued with the removal of the "everything happens on-...
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How can I view my ACTUAL earned YouTube Revenue?
You can see the finalized earnings in AdSense's payment report. You can reach it via Settings > Payments on AdSense.
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I updated my Google phone number but it won't update on my YouTube channel
Update, YouTube has updated my phone number, I guess it just took about a week for them to do it.
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How to get the complete listing of all the videos in a too-long-to-scroll-through YouTube list?
well, you can use YT API like shown here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
either with your own API key from here: https://console.developers.google.com/api/credentials
and constructing own URL:
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I can see my YouTube comment's history, but no replies to other comments. Why is that?
Its relatively straightforward to find you comment history in both the mobile YT app and on PC.
Mobile
PC
Select the hamburger menu (three parallel line icon) to the left of the YT screen and from ...
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How to edit a playlist of a YouTube channel I manage
This seems to have been a bug that's now (July 20, 2023) resolved. Now if I click on my profile picture in the YouTube main page and select Switch account, I can navigate to the channel's view of the ...
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How can I list and manage multiple handles I created for my channel?
Update from OP
OP confirmed the handle change they initiated Nov. 17, 2022 became permanent Dec. 1, 2022. This is in line with the YouTube documentation below which notes a 14-day window during which ...
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Suddenly cannot switch to YouTube account with no channel
I found a way. Linking, if anybody needs it too.
Editor's note:
As of October 2023, the above-linked URL is redirected to the account All Channels page. The navigation path is Settings > Account &...
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Can't add child's account to YouTube channel
If your child is under 13 (or applicable age in your country), they can watch YouTube with your supervision, but are not allowed to have a YouTube Channel. I have found that error and all that errors ...
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How can I prevent myself from making money off of making YouTube videos?
Monetization is optional, you can leave the programme if you do not wish to monetize your content.
You can turn off monetization on your channel completely by following
the instructions to leave the ...
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Can I upload similar videos in different languages on YouTube?
You mentioned
"I am not sure if this violates the guideline above. Does anyone know?"
Not quite sure if it does.
As an alternative though, why don't you just add your translations as ...
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How do I change my Youtube nickname from "Firstname Lastname" to "Nickname" or just "Firstname"
Thanks to Leo Wattenberg's comment: the solution is to simply change my last name into . (a dot)
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How do you now search within YouTube channels?
It's still in the exact same position
For smaller resolutions, you may need to scroll the tabs via the < and > buttons.
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Moving a YouTube URL from one account to another
The URL you are referring is the channel URL, instructions to setup and modify channel URL can be found at https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2657968?hl=en
For transferring channels, your best ...
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YouTube live - unlisted vs private vs public videos
Is there a way to detect if a channel is live using an unlisted video link and second, to find the ID of that unlisted video link without logging in with the owner gmail account of that channel?
No ...
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How can a YouTube video has more likes than views?
Likes are updated in real time. Views are not:
We want to make sure that videos are being viewed by actual humans and not computer programs. During the first couple of hours after a video has been ...
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How to make YouTube video private to allow viewing only for specific people (using new Studio Beta, 2019)?
There doesn't seem to be a way for this in the beta yet. You'll need to return to the Classic version (link is in the bottom left corner of the Beta), and then do it the old way:
Go to your ...
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Monetization disabled in my YouTube channel
First: You need an AdSense account linked on your YouTube account.
Second: You must have 4000 watch hours and more than 1000 subscribers to earn money from YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/...
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Can you view your total upload hours on YouTube?
you can easily do so by using Google Sheets...
to get individual duration per video:
=SUBSTITUTE(REGEXREPLACE(IMPORTXML(A2, "//*[@itemprop='duration']/@content"),
"PT|S", ""), "M", ":0")
to get ...
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Is there such a thing as a Google Brand Account in existence?
You can create a Brand Channel on Youtube from this link. You will need to be logged-in.
Once you've created the Brand Channel then you can move an existing personal page or brand to this new Brand ...
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How to get the complete listing of all the videos in a too-long-to-scroll-through YouTube list?
download this: https://yt-dl.org/latest/youtube-dl.exe
in a folder where you downloaded youtube-dl.exe create batch file BATCH.cmd with content:
youtube-dl --get-id --get-title https://www.youtube....
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YouTube brand account or not
If you created the channel via https://www.youtube.com/channel_switcher, it definitely is connected to a brand account. If your channel is connected to a brand account, you'll see an option to add ...
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How do you make a YouTube channel private and videos ONLY appear in channel?
You cannot make channels private. You can only disable them, which then hides them – but the videos become unavailable then, too.
To achieve your goal, I recommend uploading your videos as unlisted ...
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How do you add a section to your channel and then add single videos to it?
Create a new playlist with whatever videos you want listed on your channel page.
Go to your channel page, scroll to the bottom, and click the Add a section button
Select Single playlist for content, ...
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