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If you're a regular viewer of these videos you know that you should always make your
YouTube videos public, right? Well, maybe not always.
Hi there, I'm Jim Cliff from Cast Recruitment Videos. Couple of months ago I told you about
why you should make your YouTube videos public, but there's two other options you have when
you upload a video to YouTube. There's 'private' and 'unlisted'. Now a private video is one
that, as the name suggests, is private. You choose who gets to actually see that video
and when you upload it you have to tell YouTube the user names, the YouTube user names of
the people who you want to be able to watch that video. So it's great for if you want
to show specific people sensitive information that you don't really want getting out there,
because even if they pass it on, people won't be able to watch it unless they can log in
as that user. An unlisted video, by contrast, isn't private
- anyone on YouTube can see an unlisted video, but only if they have a link to it. Now this
means no-one's going to stumble across your video, it's not going to be what people find
when they search for your company online. It's not going to show up on the YouTube search
results, it's not going to show up on Google or Google+ or anywhere people might search.
But, if you give this link out to people, you have to be aware that they might pass
the link on. They might tweet it, they might send it round to some of their friends, and
some videos have gone viral despite being actually unlisted on YouTube, so it's not
somewhere to put sensitive information. t is a great way to have internal communications
if you're got thousands of employees around the world and you want to put the same message
out to everyone, it's not particularly sensitive but it's not what you want to find - what
you want people to come across necessarily when they're searching for your company online,
then an unlisted video is a great way to go, because is's a grteat way to get a message
out to a lot of people, but not to the entire world.