Share playlists
If you’re on your mobile device or at your computer, you can share your own playlists or ones created by other YouTubers. When you share a playlist, a link is created that you can give to somebody else. You can share it on social networks like Facebook, Twitter, and Google+.
Remember that if your playlist includes any private videos, you’ll need to invite your friends or family to view the videos first.
share icon to share the playlist via email, SMS, or other social networks you have installed on your device.
share icon to share the playlist via email, SMS, or other social networks you have installed on your device.To share a playlist, click the Share btn on the Playlist page. From here you can share the video across social networks, embed the video, or email the video.
You can also share a playlist while watching it. Click the 
share icon under the video. From here you can share the video across social networks, embed the video, or email the video. You also have the option to share the playlist from the current video you’re watching or from the start of the playlist.
If videos aren’t appearing in an embedded playlist, some of the videos in the playlist may have had their embed option disabled by the uploader. Private videos will also not play in the playlist unless they’ve been shared with you by the uploader. For best results, you may want to ensure that the content you’ve included in your playlist contains only public videos that have the embed option enabled.
Embed videos and playlists
Add YouTube videos and playlists to a website or blog by embedding it.
Here’s how to embed a video:
- Click the Share link under the video.
- Click the Embed link.
- Copy the code provided in the expanded box.
- Paste the code into your blog or website.
Here’s how to embed a playlist:
- Click Playlists on the left side of your YouTube page
- Click the playlist title you’d like to embed.
- Click the Share link.
- Click the Embed link.
- Copy the embed code that appears in the menu below.
- Paste the code into your website or blog.
Embedding options
Enabling this option means that YouTube won’t store information about visitors on your web page unless they play the video.
To make an embedded video autoplay, add “&autoplay=1” to the video’s embed code, right after the video ID (the series of letters that follows “v/”).
Here’s an example:
<object height="350" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/OdT9z-JjtJk&autoplay=1" /><embed height="350" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/OdT9z-JjtJk&autoplay=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425"></embed></object>
Add “#t=” to a video’s embed code, followed by the time at which you’d like the video to begin playing.
For example, if you want a video to start at 2 minutes and 30 seconds into the video, your embed code would look something like the following:
<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/UkWd0azv3fQ#t=2m30s" width="420"></iframe>
- “cc_lang_pref” sets the language for the captions shown in the video.
- “cc_load_policy=1” turns captions on by default.
- “fr” represents the language code for French. You can look up 2-letter language codes in the ISO 639-1 standard.
- Visit your Video Manager.
- Find the video you’d like to change and click Edit.
- Click Advanced Settings under the video.
- Uncheck the Allow Embedding checkbox under the “Distribution Options” section.
- Click Save changes at the bottom of the page.
Share videos
Options for sharing YouTube videos
There are several ways to share a video on YouTube. To get started, click the Share link under the video you’d like to share, then select one of the following options:
- Share this video: This gives you a link that you can copy and paste somewhere else, like in an email message.
- Link to a specific part of the video: Before copying the link, select the Start at: checkbox if you want to share a particular part of the video. For example, if you want to the video to start at 2 minutes and 30 seconds, select the checkbox, then type “2:30” into the box.
- Social networks: Click one of the social network icons (e.g. Facebook, Twitter) to share the video there.
- Embed: This lets you show the video on a different site, like your own website or blog. Learn more about embedding videos.
- Email: YouTube will send an email to the email address(es) you enter. If the recipient doesn’t receive the video, ask them to check their spam folders, or add service@youtube.com to their address book and filter exception list.
Sometimes when you share an ad, YouTube may record that in browser web storage and/or the URL.
Can’t see private videos
Private videos can only be seen by people who have been invited to view the video.
Here are some possible reasons why you or somebody you’ve shared the video with aren’t able to see a private video:
- Viewers need to have a YouTube account and be signed into it when trying to view the video.
- If the viewer has multiple YouTube accounts, they must be signed into the account which the video has been shared with.
- Since private videos don’t appear on a Channel page, the person will need to use the specific link to the private video. YouTube will send them an email with the link once you’ve invited them, but you can also send it yourself.
Wrong video description or thumbnail on Facebook
When entering a YouTube URL to Facebook, the auto-populated video description or thumbnail may occasionally be blank or out of date. This can happen when a YouTube video is shared on Facebook or entered into a post before the video has finished processing or while the video is private.
Occasionally, even after the video has finished processing and is made public, an out-of-date description or thumbnail may appear. This will eventually fix itself once Facebook updates its cache.
How to update the description immediately
You should be able to manually edit the description in Facebook’s user interface to correct your post.
If you are the uploader and want to ensure that other users will see the correct description when sharing your video on Facebook, you can enter the video URL in the Facebook debug tool to immediately update the cached description.
If you run into other issues, consider reporting the issue to Facebook.
How to avoid this issue
When you upload a video, make sure that the video is processed, made public, and that the video information and thumbnail are set on YouTube before pasting the video link in Facebook. Pasting the link will load the video information at that moment into Facebook’s cache. Even if the description is changed on YouTube, the old information will persist for any user who pastes that URL until Facebook’s cache is updated.
