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Step-by-Step Guide on: How to Connect & Post on YouTube Using GravitySocial

GravitySocial is a smart publishing tool within the GravityWrite platform that lets you create, schedule, and publish posts across multiple social media platforms - all from one place. With GravitySocial you can manage your personal brand or a business channel and your content reaches the right audience at the right time.

• Visit Gravitywrite.com

• Login using your existing Gravity Write credentials.

• If you are a new user, click on Sign Up and create your account.

Once logged in, Click on Gravity Social from the left-sidebar of Gravity Write homepage.

You will be prompted to continue with your logged-in Gravity Write account. Click on Sign In with Gravity Write.

1. On the Gravity Social Dashboard, click on the ‘+ Add Account’ button and then Click on “Add Account” in the Social Accounts page.

2. A list of social media platforms will appear. Click on YouTube.

• Make sure you are already signed into your Active Gmail account in your browser.

• Your Active gmail account should have a YouTube channel.

• Login to the browser with your active Gmail account. Search for YouTube Login and enter into the youtube page.

• Click on the profile icon on the right side of the page. Click “Create a Channel”

• Enter Channel name & Handle and Click “Create Channel”

• You can see your YouTube Channel now

3. Your active Gmail accounts will appear. Select the one you want to connect.

4. Review the policy terms and Click Continue.

5. Your YouTube account is now successfully linked to Gravity Social.

• Now, you can see the connected YouTube account in the “Choose entity” page.

• Enable the YouTube account checkbox and Click “Choose”.

• Your YouTube account has now been added to the Social Accounts page of Gravity Social.

• Click “Create Post”, in the left side menu bar and Select the YouTube account icon.

• Video Title – Enter a relevant and engaging title for your video.

• Privacy Configuration - Select privacy option of your choice.

(Public - Anyone can search for and view the video.

Private - Only people you choose can view the video.

Unlisted - Anyone with the link can view the video.)

• Video Description - You can either write your own description or use the “AI Assist” option.

• To use AI assist, click the “AI assist” symbol.

• Tell AI what to write about - Enter the relevant information in this field, for which AI will auto generate a suitable description for your YouTube video.

• Choose the tone - based on the selected tone, the AI will write the description accordingly.

• Click Generate.

• Use the Retry option - If you are not satisfied with the content already generated by the AI, you can use the Retry option. Not just that, there are more options mentioned below: Rephrase, Expand, Shorten, Simplify, More friendly, More formal, More edgy, More engaging - you can click on any of these and based on your selection, the AI will regenerate the content accordingly.

• Now, Click ‘Insert’ to populate the description field.

• You can do any changes you want in the description manually now.

1. Ensure your video file is ready before proceeding. You need to upload a file you have already prepared.

2. Maximum Character limit for description field - 5000

3. When you use Gravity Social, the AI generated words you used will be taken into account, from your total word limit in the Gravity Write subscription plan.

4. Post counts will also be deducted from your Gravity Write subscription plan.

1. After filling in the video details, click “Media”.

2. Click Browse, Upload your video file and Click Insert.

3. On the right side, you can see the preview of your video.

4. Choose “Post Now” to publish the video immediately.

5. The video will be instantly uploaded to your connected YouTube channel.

6. This video post will appear in the ‘Posts’ tab with ‘Published’ Status.

1. Click “Pick Time”

2. Set the date and time for your video to go live and Click Pick Time.

3. Now, Click Schedule.

4. This video post will appear in the ‘Posts’ tab with ‘Scheduled’ Status.

5. Once this video is published at the scheduled date & time, the status will automatically update to ‘Published’.

1. Click “Add to Queue”

2. You can use Add to Queue option to schedule and upload your posts at consecutive intervals (at 12.00 PM, 16.00 PM, 21.00 PM, 23.10 PM)

3. If you are creating your post & adding to the queue, the time slot next to your current time would be considered for scheduling your post.

4. Eg: Here, I have created the first post by 15.00 PM, so it has been scheduled for the 16.00 PM time slot. Next post, I have created and added to the queue scheduled for 21.00 PM time slot and so on.

5. This sequence continues like a loop irrespective of the platform you choose.

You can use the “Labels” option when you handle social media accounts for multiple clients. It helps you to differentiate the posts of the same social media platform for different users.

• After creating your content, click “Labels”

• Enter label name & Click “Save”

• You can see the Label is created and now, click “Done”. (Similarly, you can create Labels while creating all of your posts)

• Now, you can post/ schedule/ add to queue - following the previous steps (Refer Option 1/ Option 2/ Option 3 steps)

• Here, you can see for the YouTube platform, multiple posts are created but you can differentiate it for which client/user you have created this particular post, based on the Label name.

1. Click on “Create Post”. Now, click all the social media account icons you have added or whatever social media accounts you want to publish post

2. You can see all the accounts in the page

3. Click on the (+) icon, it shows all the social media accounts

4. Click on the Pinterest

5. Here, you can see the Pinterest account page. Enter the details you want to post in your Pinterest post

6. Now, again click on the, (+) icon (Create Version)

7. Choose the X platform (or) any social media platform you want to add content

8. Enter the details you want to post in your X post. Once content for X post has been added, you can see, there is a Pinterest section, then comes X section

9. In a similar way, you can add content for all the social media platforms at the same time. After adding contents, you can see all the social media platform sections in the page. You can click on it and see the content you have given for that particular platform.

10. Now, you can choose to “Post now” (or) “Pick time” to schedule for a particular date & time (or) “Add to queue” to post at regular time intervals

(Refer “Post or Schedule or Add to Queue” point above for detailed steps)

To verify that your video has been successfully posted in YouTube:

• Open your web browser and enter YouTube login.

• Make sure you are logged in with the same Gmail account linked in GravitySocial.

• On the top right corner, click on your profile icon.

• Click ‘View Your Channel’.

• Click on ‘Videos’ - You can see your uploaded video.

You can edit or delete a scheduled post anytime before it's published. Here’s how:

• In Gravity Social, go to the ‘Posts’ option from the left side menu.

• Look for your YouTube post with Scheduled status.

• On the right-hand side, click the three-dot menu (⋮).

• Select ‘Duplicate’ to duplicate the same video post or ‘Delete’ to remove it.

1. A valid Gravity Write account

2. An active Gmail account

3. A ready-to-upload video file

4. Logged into your Gmail account in the browser

If you follow the above steps, you are all set to manage and grow your YouTube presence with GravitySocial - without switching tabs or juggling multiple apps.

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Updated on: 09/06/2025