# Upload Video to YouTube

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**Where do I find it?**

To upload animal videos to YouTube from your RescueGroups.org account, go to **Animals > Settings**.

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Below are the steps to enable video uploads to YouTube.

# If you want to upload videos to RescueGroups.org's account on YouTube

To enable uploads of videos to RescueGroups.org YouTube account, do the following:


1. Go to the **Animals Settings** page (**Animals > Settings**).
2. Click **Export Settings**.
3. Near the bottom of the **General exports settings** section, find the option named **Account to use for YouTube video upload**.  
     
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4. Select **RescueGroups.org** in the drop-down list.
5. Click the **Save** button at the bottom of the page.

# If you want to upload videos to your own organization's account on YouTube

To enable uploads of videos to your own organization's YouTube account, do the following:


 1. See the above instructions. From the **Account to use for YouTube video upload**, select **Organization** in the drop-down list.
 2. Click the **Click here to get your authorization code** link.  A new browser window opens.
 3. Log in to the appropriate YouTube account, if necessary.
 4. Click the **Accept** button to grant the **RescueGroups.org Animal Videos** app access to upload videos to your account.
 5. Click inside the text box containing the authorization code.  The entire code should highlight – if it doesn't select the entire text contents inside the text box.
 6. On the browser menu, click **Edit > Copy** to copy the authorization code to the clipboard.
 7. Switch back to the previous browser window (the **Export Settings** page) and click inside the **YouTube authorization code** text box.
 8. If there is already an authorization code in the **YouTube authorization code** text box, select it and press the **Delete** key on your keyboard.
 9. Paste the authorization code from YouTube into the text box by clicking **Edit > Paste** on your browser's menu bar.
10. Click **Save** at the bottom of the page.