Connect YouTube to SiteOps

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1. 1Make sure the brand has its own channelGo to youtube.com, sign in, and open the account menu in the top right. If the only channel there is your personal one, choose Settings, then look for "Add or manage your channel(s)" and create a new channel with the brand's name. A separate channel keeps brand videos off your personal account and lets you hand the channel to teammates later.If the brand already posts on YouTube, skip creating a new one — just confirm which Google account manages the existing channel.
   1. Account menu
   2. Settings
   3. Add or manage your channel(s)
2. 2Verify the channel by phoneGo to youtube.com/verify while signed in as the channel, pick your country, and enter a phone number. Google sends a code; type it in and you are done. Verification lifts the strictest limits on new channels, including how much you can upload per day.One phone number can only verify a couple of channels per year, so use a number you control, not a teammate's.
3. 3Check who can approve the connectionThe person who clicks Connect in SiteOps must be able to manage the channel. If the channel is a brand channel, open YouTube's settings and look for the managers or permissions section to confirm your account is listed as an owner or manager. If it is not, ask the owner to add you before you continue.This is the most common blocker. Being able to watch the channel is not the same as managing it — only owners and managers can approve uploads.
   1. Settings
   2. Managers or permissions
4. 4Start the connection in SiteOpsIn SiteOps, open Settings and find YouTube in the list of connections. Press Connect. A Google sign-in window opens — this is Google's own window, and SiteOps never sees your password.If the window does not appear, your browser may have blocked the pop-up. Look for a blocked pop-up icon near the address bar and allow it.
   1. Settings
   2. YouTube
   3. Connect

   Sign in with GoogleConnect

5. 5Pick the right Google accountGoogle first asks which account to use. Choose the one that manages the brand channel — not necessarily the account you use for email. If you do not see it in the list, choose "Use another account" and sign in with it.Signing in with the wrong account is easy to do and everything will still look fine until videos land on the wrong channel. Double-check the name and avatar before continuing.
6. 6Approve the permissions on the consent screenGoogle then shows what SiteOps is asking for: permission to upload and manage videos on your channel, and permission to read your channel's statistics. Google may show these as separate checkboxes — tick both, then press Continue. If you skip the upload permission, publishing will fail later; if you skip statistics, the view counts stay empty.If Google warns that the app is not verified yet, that is Google's standard notice while an app is under review. Look for "Advanced" or "Continue" to proceed if you trust the connection.

   Upload and manage your videos

7. 7Choose the channelIf your Google account manages more than one channel, Google shows a chooser next — a list of channels with their avatars. Pick the brand channel. This is the channel SiteOps will publish to and read from.Brand channels appear under the same Google account as your personal channel. Read the names carefully; the personal one is usually listed first.
8. 8Confirm the connection in SiteOpsBack in SiteOps, the YouTube card should now show as connected, with the channel's name. If it still shows Connect, refresh the page once — the approval can take a few seconds to register.
9. 9Publish a first Short and watch the views arriveApprove a video in the review queue and send it to YouTube. It appears on the channel as a Short within a few minutes. View counts start flowing into the Social card with the next daily refresh, so give the first numbers up to a day.

   YouTube Shorts

   vertical video — required

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   New channels have a small daily upload quota. If you approve several videos at once, SiteOps publishes what the quota allows and queues the rest for the next day — that is normal.