Unlisted content, such as videos, live streams, and playlists, do not appear in the listing pages on your full video website. They are not searchable by those visiting your video website. However, you can share a link to an unlisted content landing page (share URL) with a viewer, and they will be able to navigate to your other videos through your video website navigation, and also access search and any other pages on your site.
This setting is useful for making content available via a link to only the people you share it with, however, it’s important to keep in mind that there is no technical mechanism that might prevent someone from sharing that link with other people.
How to Make Your Video Unlisted
Open the video in question and find the ‘Video Website Visibility’ field. Open the dropdown menu and select “Do NOT list this video on my video website”
This setting also works in a similar way for Live Streams and Playlists.
NOTE: An unlisted video, live stream, or playlist may still be indexed by search engines. If you prefer to block search engines from discovering your content, enable the “Block search engine indexing” toggle from any individual content detail page or as a site-wide preference in the Site Editor.
Read more about preventing search engines from indexing your videos.
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