Knowledge Base/General/Frequently Asked Questions about Blip
How to Distribute to YouTube
Tom Reynolds
posted this on November 13, 2009 02:03 pm
[Update] January, 2013 -- Not all Blip accounts are permitted to distribute to YouTube. If you do not see YouTube as an option on the Dashboard distribution screen < http://blip.tv/dashboard/distribution >, then you are not explicitly not permitted to cross-post.
Applying
- First, navigate to the Distribution page from your Dashboard:
- Click on the YouTube link and then click the Apply button. From here, our content team will review your show.
Setup Your YouTube Account
- Once approved, return to your YouTube distribution page and enter your YouTube credentials. (If you've enabled 2-step Verification on your Google/YouTube account, you need to follow these special directions to set-up an application-specific password.) Now you're all set to crosspost future episodes, as well as any back episodes.
Crosspost a Back Episode
- Go to the Episodes page of your Dashboard and click the title of the episode you wish to crosspost.
- On the Episode page, click the Edit button.
- Now click the Distribution tab. Check 'YouTube' and save your episode.
Comments
Okay I've looked at this as well as how to link back from a youtube video that already exists.
Is it better to upload a video to youtube and then link back, or to upload to blip.tv and then distribute to youtube?
What's the difference between the two ways, functionally?
Since youtube is encoding everything in VP8 now, if I upload to blip.tv and then distribute to youtube will my video be encoded in VP8?
Hi Bradley,
When you crosspost to YouTube we send your source video to them for their own transcoding. It goes through the same processing as if it were uploaded to YouTube manually.
We think its easier to crosspost using our Dashboard since it saves a step, but you can upload directly to YouTube and link your episodes if you'd like too. There's no change in functionality.
OK, I do not get an apply button. what I do get is a list of things I need - one being at least one video in MP4. Why so, if You tube is supporting MP3's?
MP3 is a sound file. MP4 is a video file. If you've got something on blip.tv which I presume is a video it would be renderered in MP4 wouldn't it?
isn't it better to post to BlipTv ,then to you tube? if you post first to you tube,then link to BlipTv,will it still show the advertisements? I thought you had to use the BlipTv player to have the ads show up!
Hi Steve. Ads will only be shown on blip.tv embeds at this time. We are not currently displaying ads on YouTube. We definitely recommend sending videos to YouTube from blip.tv for ease, but if you already have your video on YouTube we try to make it easy to still link the two so you can see all your stats in your blip.tv Dashboard.
The only problem I had was that I needed some kind of premium account to send videos to YouTube from Blip.TV, so I just put them up directly on YouTube instead, which costs me nothing, and loses nothing, since the ads from Blip.TV wouldn't show up in the YouTube versions either.
It would be nice to have the convenience of just distributing everything via Blip.TV, but all the other services, like Vimeo, etc., required some kind of premium account for this kind of convenience. Again, I just put the videos up directly on those sites separately for those resons, since I apparently can't link the accounts without these 'premium' subscriptions, and still won't benefit from any Blip.TV advertisting services that I've opted into.
Hey Tallship. You don't need a premium account to distribute to YouTube, you just need to be producing an episodic web series and apply for approval. Vimeo is the only service that requires a premium account on their end, not on ours though.
approval of what? approval to link to you tube? or approval to upload this episodic web series to blip tv ?
Cause what I wish to upload to blip is an episodic web series (language lessons).
Hi Steve,
YouTube has to approve the syndication, or distribution, whatever terminology is being used. So yes, You tube can turn you down when you apply for it :(
And even if you're already able to u/l stuff there in the first place w/your regular YouTube/Gmail account.
Ben Page wrote: "MP3 is a sound file. MP4 is a video file. If you've got something on blip.tv which I presume is a video it would be renderered in MP4 wouldn't it?"
Apparently not Ben. I u/l'd an FLV which works fine. Funny thing is, if you download a video from YouTube it will typically be an FLV as well, in which case you might want to play it in an FLV player, or convert it to a Windows Media file or something else - like an MP4.
But my YouTube content was rejected without having some sort of "Premium" account because the file I had u/l'd here to Blip.TV that I wanted to be available on YouTube was an FLV file, and in order to get it automatically converted required spending money on some sort of premium subscription.
When I finish the first six in a series of tutorials I'm building, I'll try again.
if you post a video to youtube through this do you still get payed?
I've tried to follow the instructions for linking vids posted on YouTube but "YouTube" is not an available option in the episodes-edit-distribution tab. Please help.
blip.tv Support wrote:
"When you crosspost to YouTube we send your source video to them for their own transcoding. It goes through the same processing as if it were uploaded to YouTube manually."
When you say "source" does it mean the file that is selected as "Master?" I know that there is an option to select a file for YouTube distribution, but I don't want to be redundant and upload two versions of the same file –and I want the highest quality version to go to YouTube because the video looks so much nicer on that platform when you have a HQ source file.
I also like making my own FLV and selecting it as the "Web" version, but I don't want that to be the one that crossposts to YouTube if I haven't selected a file to distribute there.
Just Curious,
~eric
I have a blip.tv Pro account. Does YouTube work with the timed publishing feature? If I set my video on blip to go public in a week, will it also wait a week to go to YouTube.
Is there a way to make this happen?
How long does the review / approval take?
Why would my Youtube distribution be denied. I've been able to post my video to Youtube and I don't understand why I can't cross post... can someone please help?