Youtube – How to share a private YouTube video with someone so they can edit and save it

Here's what Youtube says for sharing private videos. So, if you're sending the email notifications the way the steps say, then like one of the other answers says, maybe your friends need to add service@youtube.com to their email address book.

If you'd like to share one of your videos with a select and limited audience, you can do so by setting your video to private. Once the video's set to private you'll be able to share it with fifty other users.

Once you've set the video to private you'll be able to send the video's private URL with your contacts. Once your contacts receive the private URL, they'll be able to sign into their YouTube account and watch the video.

Here's how to find and send a private video's private URL:

1. Sign into your YouTube account and click the Account link located (at the top-right of any page ).
2. Then click the Uploaded Videos link. Click and choose the video you want to send to your friends. Then, click the "Edit" button.
3. Under the "Broadcasting and Sharing Options" section (on the left-hand side of the page towards the bottom) you'll see "Privacy" options. Click the little black arrow / triangle to expand and see all your privacy options (if its not already open and you cannot see your privacy options).
4. If the video's set to private, there will be a URL section below the "Private" option. This is the special private link that you will send to (up to) fifty contacts so that they can watch your private video.
5. Email / send a private message including the private video's special URL. When your friends receive the email invitation, they'll need to: Sign into their YouTube account
6. Click the video URL. They'll then be able to watch the video

That's it! You've now learned how to share a private video with your contacts!

I'm afraid that YouTube currently only has two security settings for Playlists: Public and Private. Public means that everyone can see it (if they got to your profile); Private means that only you can see it. This is slightly different than the settings for videos.

You can "share" a private playlist but, as the message tells you, the people you shared it with won't be able to see it until you make it public. At present, there's no such thing as an "unlisted" playlist. Your options are to share the list of video separately (like in an email message) or create a public playlist anyway and figure that no one else will really be interested in it.

If your YouTube profile is fairly public with followers of your own, another option would be to create a separate YouTube profile and create a public playlist with that. Unless you attract followers in some way with that profile, it's unlikely that someone would stumble over the public playlist(s) of that second (boring) profile.