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Hosting Property Videos on YouTube

Connect YouTube to host property videos on your own channel — Spatiko uploads from cloud storage and embeds the player on deliveries and property sites.

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Property video files are big — often gigabytes — and streaming them smoothly to every agent, buyer, and phone is a hosting problem you don’t want to own. Connect YouTube and Spatiko solves it the simple way: it uploads order videos to your own YouTube channel, then embeds the player on the delivery gallery and property website. YouTube handles the streaming, free, and the videos live on a channel you control.

What Spatiko can and can’t do on your channel

When you connect, Spatiko asks Google for two YouTube permissions: upload access and read-only access to your channel list. The read-only permission is used for exactly one thing — listing the channels your Google account owns (including brand-account channels) so you can pick where uploads go. The upload permission is what puts new videos on that channel.

Spatiko never deletes or edits videos already on your channel, and the connection gives it no ability to post comments, manage your playlists, or change your channel settings. The read-only grant is Google’s standard one, so it technically covers viewing channel data like playlists and comments — but Spatiko only ever uses it to list your channels. In practice the connection does two things: lists your channels, and uploads.

Connecting and choosing defaults

Connect YouTube from Settings → Integrations. It’s a business-level connection — one connection covers your whole team; see how connecting works for the popup, token storage, and refresh mechanics. After connecting, pick two defaults:

  • Upload channel — a single Google account can own several YouTube channels, so choose which one receives Spatiko uploads.
  • Default video privacy — applied to every video Spatiko uploads.
The YouTube settings dialog: choose the channel new uploads go to, then set the default privacy — Unlisted is recommended for property videos.

Where uploads land: privacy

The default privacy is unlisted, and for property videos it’s almost always what you want:

  • Unlisted — anyone with the link or embed can watch, but the video doesn’t appear in YouTube search, recommendations, or on your channel page. Ideal for property-specific videos meant for clients and property-site visitors.
  • Public — also visible on your channel page and in search. Use it if your channel doubles as a portfolio.
  • Private — only your own YouTube account can watch. Embedded players on delivery and property pages will show “Video unavailable,” so clients won’t see the video. Pick this only deliberately.

From order video to embedded player

YouTube uploads work on videos whose source file sits in your linked cloud storage (Dropbox or Google Drive) — Spatiko streams the file server-side from your storage straight to YouTube, so nothing passes through your browser. There are three ways to kick one off from an order:

  • Upload new files through the order’s video uploader with Also upload to YouTube checked (it’s on by default when YouTube is connected).
  • Import from your cloud folder with the same checkbox.
  • Per video — any cloud-sourced video already on the order shows an Upload to YouTube button.
A video card grid on an order: one video already live on YouTube, one still on Dropbox with an Upload to YouTube button, and one mid-upload.

The video’s title defaults to its existing title, or the property address, or the filename. Upload status shows on the order as it progresses, and a failed upload can be retried. Once YouTube finishes processing, the player appears automatically on the delivery gallery and property website.

One external limit to know about: YouTube enforces its own daily upload quota. If you hit it, Spatiko shows the error and you can retry the next day.

If a video is already hosted somewhere — YouTube, Vimeo, or a Dropbox file link — you don’t need any of this: paste the link on the order instead. See embedding 3D tours and video.

Plan requirements

Connecting YouTube requires a paid plan — see pricing for what each plan includes. If your business later drops to a plan without it, the connection is paused rather than deleted: new uploads stop, and everything resumes automatically when you upgrade again.

Disconnecting

Disconnecting removes the connection and revokes Spatiko’s access on Google’s side (with one shared-token nuance covered in how connecting works). Videos already uploaded stay on your channel, and players on past deliveries and property websites keep working — they’re ordinary YouTube embeds that don’t depend on the connection.