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YouTube Playlist Guide: Create, Manage, and Download

Here is a simple guide for creating and editing YouTube playlist, and the best way to save the playlist for offline viewing.

By Faye MillerPublished 8 months ago 5 min read

Quite similar to a music playlist on Spotify or Apple Music, YouTube playlist is an assemble of multiple videos that play one after another automatically. A YouTube playlist is frequently used for TV series or brand building. It could let your audience learn better about your brand or contents. You could create a YouTube playlist to walk your audience through your product lines with detailed introduction and features. In this post, you will learn how to make a playlist on YouTube, how to manage YouTube playlist and the best way to download YouTube playlist.

How to Create a YouTube Playlist?

It is extremely easy for you to create a YouTube playlist. All you need to get are a YouTube account and video files. There are quite a few different ways to create a YouTube playlist. You could upload your own videos and then create a YouTube playlist of your own, or just add others’ videos into an existing or newly created playlist.

1. How to make a playlist on YouTube from videos already online

When you are surfing on YouTube and coming across funny videos, you might want to add these videos to your own existing playlist or create a new playlist for these videos. In such case, you could simply follow the below steps to learn how to create a playlist on YouTube:

  • Step 1. Log into YouTube with your own account.
  • Step 2. Browse or search for the video you want to add to your own playlist.
  • Step 3. Right below the video, you could see a “Save” button for regular video or a 3-vertical-dot icon for Shorts.
  • Step 4. On the newly pop-up “Save video to...” dialog, you could choose an existing playlist of your own, or click the “+New playlist” option to create a new playlist for adding the target video to.
  • Step 5. Then, you only need to follow the on-screen instructions to create a YouTube playlist from videos of others.

2. How to make a playlist on YouTube from your videos to be uploaded

You might also create a YouTube playlist from videos you have uploaded or are going to upload. This is quite simple. Follow the below steps to learn how to create a playlist on YouTube from videos of your own:

  • Step 1. Log into YouTube.com with your own account.
  • Step 2. Click the "+Create" button to upload video from your local drive.
  • Step 3. After you have chosen the target video, YouTube will upload it.
  • Step 4. Then on the "Details" panel, you need to specify a video name, set thumbnail, select playlist, etc.
  • Step 5. Here, when you click the "Select" drop-down menu under the "Playlist" section, you could select an existing playlist or create a new playlist by clicking the "Create playlist" drop-down menu and then choose "New playlist" option.
  • Step 6. On the new "Create a new playlist" window, name and describe the playlist, and set the playlist visibility and video order.
  • Step 7. After these settings, click the "Create" button to finish the YouTube playlist creation process.
  • Step 8. Then, you could upload your own videos and add them to the newly created playlist as you like.

You could easily learn how to create a YouTube playlist by following the above steps on your computer’s YouTube.com website. It would be a little bit different if you are using YouTube app on smart phones.

How to Manage YouTube Playlist Library

Once you have learned how to create a YouTube playlist, you then need to manage YouTube playlist. You could view all playlists of your YouTube account by opening the Playlist tab on the left sidebar after you log into YouTube account. The below are some ways for you to manage YouTube playlist.

1. How to add content to YouTube playlist?

  • Step 1. Right under the target YouTube video, click the "Save" button (or “Save to playlist” button).
  • Step 2. Choose a playlist to add target YouTube video to.

2. How to merge 2 YouTube playlists?

  • Step 1. Find the playlist that you want to add to another playlist.
  • Step 2. Tap the 3-dot icon.
  • Step 3. Then choose "Add to playlist" option.
  • Step 4. Choose the target playlist you want to merge this playlist with.

3. How to delete a YouTube playlist?

  • Step 1. Log into YouTube account.
  • Step 2. On the left sidebar, under the You section, open the Playlist option.
  • Step 3. Under Playlists tab, click the 3-vertical-dot icon and then choose "Delete" option to delete existing playlist.

4. How to edit a YouTube playlist?

  • Step 1. Open the "You > Playlist" tab of your YouTube account.
  • Step 2. Find the target playlist, and then click the 3-vertical-dot icon.
  • Step 3. Choose "Edit" option on the drop-down menu.
  • Step 4. Then you could edit the playlist title, description, voting, privacy, etc.

5. How to reorder a playlist?

  • Step 1. Open "You > Playlist" tab on the left sidebar of your YouTube account.
  • Step 2. Open the target playlist by clicking the "View full playlist" option.
  • Step 3. Then you could view all videos in the same playlist.
  • Step 4. Click the 3-vertical-dot icon at the end of each video and then choose either "Move to Top" or "Move to Bottom" to reorder the videos within the playlist.

How to Download YouTube Playlists for Offline Access?

There are always times you might want to download YouTube playlist for offline viewing. If you are a Premium subscriber, you could download single videos one by one from a YouTube playlist, which is actually quite time consuming and contains quite a few limits. You could use CleverGet to save YouTube playlists in simple clicks. As a professional YouTube video downloader, it could detect all videos within the same playlist, and then list all available videos for you to select. This tool supports more than 1000 websites video download, including Netflix, Tubi, Hulu, Twitter, Facebook, etc.

You could follow the below steps to learn how to download YouTube playlist in batch.

  • Step 1. Download and install CleverGet, and then kick it off.
  • Step 2. Open youtube.com website within CleverGet.
  • Step 3. Find and play back target YouTube playlist.
  • Step 4. CleverGet will automatically parse the target page, and then list all available videos within the YouTube playlist.
  • Step 5. Choose the target videos from the playlist, and then choose output format, audios, and subtitles.
  • Step 6. Finally, click the “Download” button to download all videos from YouTube playlist.

Then, you only need to wait for the download process to complete. It will complete video download quickly. You could view all downloading and downloaded tasks on the right sidebar.

Conclusion

Now we have talked about the detailed steps and solutions on how to create a YouTube playlist. You could easily create your own YouTube playlist and promote your brand instantly. There are quite a lot of things you could do with your YouTube playlist, like introducing your products to your audience, comparing your own products with others', share fun videos, etc. You could well organize your videos by categorizing them into different playlists.

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  • Morissette Alberta8 months ago

    Creating a YouTube playlist seems pretty straightforward. I've made playlists for my own content before. It's useful for organizing related videos. Do you think it's better to start with existing videos or create a playlist first and then add to it? Another thing, I wonder if there are any hidden tricks to make playlists more discoverable. And how about managing playlists? Is it as easy as it sounds?

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