Add your YouTube videos to EX.CO

Integrate your YouTube videos to EX.CO

1. Click on the “Media Library” on the left side menu.
2. Then, in the top right corner click the “Create” button.
3. At the bottom of the menu, you will find the “Connect YouTube” option. Click that.
4. Add a descriptive name for your YouTube account
5. Add your YouTube account Data API key
   1. How to obtain the YouTube Data API for your account
6. Clicking the button will open up Google login UI for YouTube.
   1. by signing in - you will agree to the terms surrounding YouTube import.
7. Once you have logged in, you will have the option to let EX.CO access your Google account. Please tick the “View your YouTube account” option in the list (see below) and then scroll down to proceed to the next step.

View your YouTube account

1. This will land you on the default manual import screen.
2. If you manage multiple YouTube accounts or additional corporate YouTube accounts, you will need to add these additional YouTube accounts too.
3. Once past the first step, you will have the option to add additional accounts in the top left corner on the modal by clicking your username to open a new model.
4. Click the “+ Connect another channel” and choose another channel associated with your Google ID (see below).

Import Single/Multiple Videos

Once connected you will see your YouTube videos show up in the modal.

You can now manually choose one or more videos to import from the channel.

For each video, a preview button is available. Clicking it will open up a floating YouTube embed over a dimmed background, similar to our premiumpopup player.

Set up Auto-Import

In addition to picking the available videos manually, you will see a toggle in the bottom right top of the modal saying “Import every new video/s uploaded to this channel automatically to the media library”.

Switching this toggle will trigger a service that will periodically check for new available videos that haven't been imported yet, and import them to the EX.CO platform for you automatically.

Add additional YouTube accounts

You are able to add multiple YT accounts on the EX.CO platform, for every domain with its unique channel on YouTube.

In the left sidebar menu, you will find the “Integrations” tab. In it you are able to:

1. View all YouTube integrations you’ve created for your account
2. Deactivate or activate existing integrations
3. Filter those by activity status
4. Create a new integration using the + button at the top right side

Import YouTube playlists

1. Click on the “Media Library” on the left side menu.
2. Then, in the top right corner click the “Create” button.
3. Towards the bottom of the menu, you will find the “YouTube ID connect” option.

YouTube ID connect

Create Youtube playlist

1. Click that option to open the “Create Youtube Playlist”Create Youtube Playlist

2. This opens a modal with 6 fields;

3. You will need to now do the following;

   a: give your playlist a name

   b: Choose the YT account that you wish to use to pull playlist data from

   c: provide the YouTube playlist ID (which is only the part of the URL on YouTube that is after the https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=xxx copy everything after the = sign)

   d: update interval (every 60-180 mins)

   e: number of videos in the playlist (5-20 videos)