1. How to connect your YouTube account

Before connecting your YouTube channel to Loomly, please ensure you are either an Owner or a Manager.

To connect your YouTube channel to Loomly:

Go to the Social Accounts tab of your Calendar Settings page, and connect your YouTube channel by clicking on the green Connect button for YouTube:

📝 Note:

Loomly was created on a calendar basis. In each calendar, you can connect one account per social media platform.

So if you need to connect two YouTube channels, you will have to create two calendars. You can also easily create a post that will be cloned on multiple calendars. You will also be able to access all posts from All Calendars.

2. YouTube media upload types and size limits

	Format	Size
Video	.mp4, .mov	Recommended: <30MB and shorter than 2 minutes Maximum: 200MB and 5 minutes < 2 MB for thumbnails
Short	.mp4, .mov	< 60 seconds Aspect ratio: square (1:1) or vertical video where height is greater than width Recommended aspect ratio: 9:16

📝 Note:

You can view the dimensions and sizes of each media you uploaded to the Library.
You can also make last minute video edits using Loomly Studio.

📝 Note:

Videos that are less than 60 seconds and in a square or vertical format will automatically be published as a YouTube Short.

Go to Post Builder and select YouTube as a channel
Create your post as usual in Generic Content and add a video.
Go to Fine-Tune Content for YouTube to optimize your video with a title and Advanced Settings.
Show Advanced Settings to add tags to your video.
In Settings, you can also change the license type, mark whether the video is meant for kids, and select if you want to allow embedding or notify your subscribers.

For full videos (not shorts), you can add a video thumbnail either in the Generic Content step or Fine-Tune Content step

Once your video has been successfully published on YouTube, you can access it through a link in the Post View!

You can create chapters by adding timestamps in your Video Description so viewers can easily navigate the video.

Go to the Fine-Tune Content for YouTube, or Generic Content if you're only publishing to YouTube
In your description, add a timestamp, add a space, then add a title for a chapter
Add at least two more timestamps and titles

📝 Note:

YouTube will automatically publish your video as a Short if your video satisfies the following two criteria:

Less than 60 seconds
Square which is a 1:1 aspect ratio where the height of the video is equal to the width OR vertical video where the height of the video is greater than the width of the video with a recommended aspect ratio of 9:16.