Google Drive to YouTube – Upload and Publish Video

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I am struggling to find a way to upload/publish video from the new Google Drive to (Google's) YouTube. I am trying to avoid downloading the file to my local disk and uploading it again—it's already on Google's servers!

There used to be a workaround where you send the video as an attachment to the "mobile upload" email address but the new Drive interface does not offer the option to send a video as attachment any more (at least I did not find it).

How can I do this?

Best Answer

Try this:

  • Go to https://photos.google.com/settings and set "Google Drive / Show Google Drive photos & videos in your Photos library" to "ON";
  • Go to https://www.youtube.com/upload and on the right hand side, you should see a option to import videos from Google Drive;
  • Click the "import" button, click on your video and choose select.