How to schedule YouTube videos, with the title, thumbnail and privacy set

Choose Video Post, pick your YouTube channel, add the video, write the title and the description, choose a thumbnail and the privacy, and schedule it or add it to a queue. At that time SPREVA uploads the video, picking up where it stopped if the connection drops, and follows it until YouTube has finished processing it.

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   Press New in the sidebar, choose Post, then Video Post, and pick your YouTube channel.

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   Add the video, from your computer or the library, up to 1 GB.

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   Write the Title, up to 100 characters. Without one, SPREVA uses the first line of your text.

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   Write the description as the post's text: up to 5,000 bytes, links and timestamps included.

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   Choose a Custom thumbnail from your library: a JPEG or PNG of up to 2 MB.

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   Set Privacy to public, unlisted or private; a new upload starts as private. If the video was made with AI, turn on Label as AI-generated.

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   Schedule it, or Add to queue.

SPREVA uploads the video at the time you chose, in pieces, saving its progress as it goes, so a dropped connection resumes instead of starting over. Then it waits for YouTube to process the video and marks the post as published once YouTube says it is ready.

Because the upload starts at that time, a long video can take a few minutes to appear while YouTube processes it. If the minute matters, a premiere or a live chat, schedule it a little earlier.

SPREVA checks these before it uploads, so nothing is refused at the last minute:

• The description is measured in bytes, 5,000 of them: an emoji, an accented letter or a Chinese, Japanese or Korean character takes more than one.
• No angle brackets in the title or the description: YouTube refuses < and >.
• Custom thumbnails need a verified channel. SPREVA warns you before it publishes if yours is not, and if YouTube refuses the thumbnail, the video still goes out and you are told.

A vertical or square video of three minutes or less becomes a Short on its own; there is no switch for it. The same steps schedule both. How to schedule YouTube Shorts.

Each video's views, likes and comments come back into SPREVA, and, where YouTube shares them, watch time, shares and engaged views, with your channel's subscribers. They are read an hour after the video goes out, then over the following month.

Connect your channel, add the next video with its title, description and thumbnail, and schedule it for the time your audience is home. Every plan starts with a 7-day trial.