YouTube Channel and Playlists

Become a Partner!
Yale has the capability of adding Playlists and in some instances, new channels under our agreement with YouTube.
 
If your school, department or organization creates a lot of high quality video content, creating a Playlist or even your own YouTube channel could be helpful.

Benefits of a Playlist

Unlimited video file size for upload
Search Engine Optimization (SEO): Your videos will be ’related to' the Yale main channel, with higher listing in searches.
Direct link to your video on the Yale main channel page
ContentID Tracking - YouTube scans our content, adds the audio/visual imprint to a database of copyright holders and alerts Yale to copies uploaded to YouTube. Additionally, if that copy is not being shared properly (ad-free), we can demand the user to take the video down.

Requirements for having a Playlist

Quality Content: Videos distributed on Yale YouTube must have high production value: HD quality video with clear, crisp audio
Yale watermark on (most) videos. In few creative & artistic videos, the watermark may be considered somewhat distracting and can be omitted, but this is for few videos.
Minimum Content Contribution: Yale requires a minimum of 4 videos.
Dedicated staff(er) to manage your videos: At minimum your office needs to have one staff member able to managing the content flow.
Comments: Yale main channel has comments turned off because we do not maintain enough staff to moderate those comments. We recommend the same policy be adopted for partner channels. If you have the staff resources available to moderate comments on your YouTube channel, please feel free to do so.
 
If you are interested in having your videos on Yale YouTube, contact guy.ortoleva@yale.edu or patrick.leone@yale.edu.