Private until Google's audit
Until Google completes its audit of Watchpost, YouTube keeps every upload from the app private, whatever you choose. We will say clearly in the app when this changes.
YouTube
Schedule YouTube videos and Shorts
Upload videos and Shorts with everything YouTube Studio asks for: title, tags, privacy, thumbnail, playlists and captions. Add a vertical cut and Watchpost publishes it as a Short too.
No card needed.
Availability: Public YouTube uploads depend on Google completing its audit of Watchpost. Until then, uploads stay private as described below.
What you can post
Everything you can publish on YouTube
Video
Short
First comment
Videos
Up to 12 hours long (15 minutes until your channel is phone-verified).
Shorts
Vertical or square videos up to 3 minutes. YouTube makes them Shorts automatically.
Every posting option
Every YouTube option, in one composer
Each option sits on the platform's own tab in the composer, so the other channels in the same post stay untouched.
Required
- Title (up to 100 characters)
- Description (up to 5,000 bytes)
- Privacy: public, unlisted or private
- Made for kids: yes or no
Details
- Tags
- Category
- Custom thumbnail (phone-verified channels)
- Add to one or more playlists
- Captions files
- Default language and translated titles and descriptions
- Recording date
Disclosure
- Altered or synthetic content
- Paid product placement
- Brand partner
Distribution
- Let YouTube publish it at a set time (private until then)
- Notify subscribers or not
- Allow embedding
- Show or hide public stats
- Licence: standard YouTube or Creative Commons
Comments
- First comment
- Comment replies from thread parts
Auto-share
Also publish as Short
Add a vertical cut of your video and Watchpost uploads it as a separate Short with its own link. If your main video already qualifies as a Short, it simply is one.
Not possible through the platform's API
- Premieres and live streams
- Pinning a comment
- Community posts
- Age or region restrictions
- Replacing the video file after upload
Analytics
Connect your accounts, then measure what works
Accounts you can connect
- YouTube channels, including brand accounts
- Several channels per workspace, within your plan's channel limit
Channel and video analytics from YouTube Analytics.
- Views, engaged views and watch time
- Average view duration and percentage watched
- Likes, comments and shares
- Subscribers gained and lost
- Playlist adds and removals
- Shorts versus long videos
- Audience by age, gender and country
- Per video: totals and a daily curve
- YouTube finalises analytics 2 to 3 days late, so the most recent days fill in over time.
- Watchpost follows YouTube's developer policies on how YouTube data is shown and stored.
Honest notes
Limits worth knowing
What YouTube allows apps like Watchpost to do, said plainly, so nothing surprises you after you schedule.
A shared daily allowance
YouTube gives each app a daily upload allowance shared by all of its users. If it runs out, Watchpost waits and uploads after the reset at midnight US Pacific time (3 pm or 4 pm in Malaysia).
Comments switch off sometimes
YouTube disables comments on made-for-kids, private and scheduled videos, so Watchpost skips the first comment there and tells you.
Thumbnails need verification
Custom thumbnails and videos over 15 minutes need a phone-verified channel. The video still uploads if the thumbnail is refused.
Shorts are automatic
A Short must be vertical or square and 3 minutes or shorter. A 16:9 video can never be a Short.
YouTube questions
Other platforms
One calendar for all of them
Plan your next YouTube post
Start your 30-day free trial, connect a platform and schedule a post. No card needed.