The built-in cameras on smartphones have improved considerably in recent years, making it possible for "anyone" to shoot not only photos but also videos "easily" and "beautifully."
If you use them well, videos shot on your smartphone can serve as promotional or explanatory videos for your products and services.
However, many people find that once they've shot a video, they don't know how to get it seen. Uploading it to YouTube or embedding it on a website or mobile site seems like a good way to show it to prospects, but they aren't sure how to upload it.
For those people, we'll cover the following over two articles—this one and the next:
1. How to easily upload a video shot on your smartphone to YouTube
2. How to embed a video uploaded to YouTube on your website or mobile site
That's what we'd like to write about.
This time, we'll introduce 1. How to easily upload a video shot on your smartphone to YouTube.
We'll write this assuming you're using an iPhone, but you should be able to upload with similar steps on non-iPhone smartphones as well.
First, shoot your video.
The video you shoot will be saved in the Videos folder of your album.
2. Open the video you want to upload to YouTube
Open the video you want to upload from the Videos folder.
3. Tap the share icon at the bottom left
Tap the share icon at the bottom left.
When you tap the share icon, a screen like the one below will appear.
4. Tap the YouTube icon
Tap the YouTube icon on the screen that appears.
When you tap the YouTube icon, a screen like the one below will appear.
5. Enter your Google account information
You'll be asked for the email address or phone number for your Google account along with your password, so enter them.
If you don't have a Google account, you can create one for free, so please do so.
You can create a Google account here → https://accounts.google.com/SignUp?hl=ja
Once you've entered your Google account details, you'll be taken to a YouTube screen like the one below.
6. Enter the video title and description
There are fields for entering the video title and description, so fill them in.
After entering them, tap "Publish" at the top right and the upload is complete.
That's how to upload a video shot on your smartphone to YouTube.
Once you get used to it, you can do it in just 2 to 3 minutes (not counting the waiting time).
You went to the trouble of shooting that video. Let's get it seen by lots of people and put it to good use!
