Editor’s note: We recently launched an improvement that makes over 60 additional Google services available to Google Apps users. This series showcases what’s new and how your organization can benefit.
Welcome to YouTube
With more than 1 billion subscribers and 2 billion video views per day, YouTube is one of the top destinations for watching, uploading, and discussing video. Now, your company can benefit from the tools and scale provided by YouTube integrated with your users’ Google Apps accounts.
Many companies are already using YouTube in interesting ways to promote communication, both within the organization and to external audiences. Here are some examples:
- Build a public YouTube channel for your brand or product: You can maintain a public YouTube channel for your entire organization or for individual departments. For example, your marketing team can create a brand channel on YouTube to advertise your company to external customers. Take a look at HP's brand channel for a nice example of how a business can use YouTube to build a community around the exchange of product knowledge.
- Build an archive of all your company’s videos in one place: From training videos to strategy updates, you can centralize both externally-facing and internally-facing video in one video archive. YouTube’s sharing options let you choose whether you want your videos to be accessible publicly on YouTube or privately to people who you individually invite to watch, giving you control over your content.
- Build a channel to support your business processes: Customers and employees can stay up-to-date on new videos and channel activity by subscribing to the appropriate channels. Recent activity from those channels, such as new video content uploads, will then be delivered automatically to the subscriber’s homepage or to their email inbox, if they choose. For example, P&G maintains a hiring channel on YouTube targeting potential employees, so interested candidates can subscribe to the channel and ensure they don’t miss P&G’s latest hiring updates.
End users can also engage in conversations relating to the video content using the YouTube Moderator feature, which provides a forum for questions and answers directly in the video interface. This type of conversation can bring invaluable product or service feedback directly from customers to your organization.
YouTube provides a platform on which your organization can manage and archive video communications and control how those videos are shared both internally and externally. YouTube's features also allow for easy and intuitive uploading, viewing, collaboration, and conversation covering all of your organization’s video collateral. And now that YouTube is integrated with Google Apps, sharing content with colleagues and distribution lists is easy with contact list integration.
Learn more and get started
YouTube sign-in can be enabled by your domain administrator from the Google Apps Control Panel at https://www.google.com/a/[your_domain.com] (replace [your_domain.com] with your actual domain name). If your organization isn’t using Google Apps yet, you can learn more and sign up today at http://www.google.com/apps/more.
For the latest information on YouTube features and updates, check out the Official YouTube Channel and the YouTube Blog.
Share your story
Have you already started using YouTube at your organization, or plan to now that it’s available? Please share your story and your organization could be featured in the next Gone Google ad campaign!
Note: YouTube may not be available in all areas.
14 comments:
Great Idea!
This seems to compete with Google Videos for Google Apps. What should I do as a customer ? Migrate all to youtube ?
When does this go live? I'm the administrator for our Education Apps and we still are unable to implement this.
I still don;t have access in my administrator options.
It is great you did, but when will it be complete? I cannot login to Youtube for 2 weeks now!
We have turned the service on in our control panel, but it is not working. Any ETA when this will actually work for Google Apps Customers?
Several commenters have noted that YouTube still does not appear to be available after transitioning to the new infrastructure for Google Apps accounts. Please note that YouTube is not available in all countries (more details here: http://goo.gl/VYk5M). If your organization signed up for Google Apps from a location where YouTube is not yet supported, accounts within your organization will not have access to YouTube at this time.
I added all 4 of the YouTube services to my domain and now my users aren't being greeted by the "not enabled for your domain" message when they try to sign in. But when they do sign in they are asked to create a YouTube account - which will require logging out of their Google Account.
Is there a layer of separation that still exists? I was expecting something more along the lines of Reader or Picasa.
I have the same situation as Patrick - the users are told to sign out of their Apps account when they try to log in to Youtube.
All the online help info is aimed at people who already had a separate Youtube account before this new Apps Youtube feature rolled out.
Can someone please explain step by step how to get a Google Apps user signed up on to Youtube from scratch using their Google Apps account?
Same happens for our Google Apps Edu. It is enabled, users are transitioned, but "the users are told to sign out of their Apps account when they try to log in to Youtube."
Missing integration with Google Sites!!!! How to embed the channel into the regular Google Sites page in order to show all videos in the channel or at least recent activity content. A single video can be shown by embedded YouTube player, but normal users do not recognize that there are other videos under arrows on the sides.
"Note: YouTube may not be available in all areas."
But for Gmail account it's ok... Yeah right... No Google Buzz, no Google Plus, no Google Profile, no Youtube... Maybe it's time for me to stop paying Google Apps.
When will Youtube be available for Google Apps Users in Austria?
When will Youtube be available for Google Apps Users in Kuwait?
Post a Comment
Thank you for sharing your feedback with the Google Enterprise team. We will respond to open issues addressed in Comments with future posts on this blog. We appreciate your interest in Google Enterprise.