From the course: Creating and Managing a YouTube Channel

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Creating a playlist on YouTube

Creating a playlist on YouTube

- One of the most useful ways to manage content on YouTube is a playlist. A playlist is simply a list of videos that people can play. Seems a bit obvious, but there's actually a bit more than that, because think of it this way. You can actually curate content and make recommendations. For example, you can put together a collection of videos that you've created, or you can use a playlist to group videos into a smaller subset of your library or even pick things from other people's libraries and then recommend them. This works well because you can organize things by topic or by content style, and you could then take those playlists and actually embed them into a single player. This means that you could take a selection of videos and put them into a blog post or on your website, and this really allows someone who's casually browsing to easily go through and watch multiple videos. This could be quite useful if you like to make shorter content that's part of a bigger multi-part series, or…

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