Using the Youtube App
The YouTube Zoom App brings the YouTube experience directly into Zoom meetings, making it easy and fun to watch videos together as a group. Whether you’re meeting for a casual hangout, study session, or team presentation, the app allows everyone in the meeting to enjoy videos together with seamless controls.
With access to YouTube’s popular videos and the ability to search the entire library, you can find videos on any topic and start playing them for everyone in the meeting. The app lets all participants control playback by default, so anyone can play, pause, or skip videos, as well as add new videos to a shared meeting queue.
For hosts running structured sessions, like classes or presentations, the YouTube Zoom App includes options to limit participant controls and choose whether video playback is synchronized for everyone or if participants can watch at their own pace. These features are designed to provide flexibility, allowing users to tailor the experience to the needs of their group.
Unlike traditional screen sharing, the YouTube Zoom App delivers high-quality playback for each participant, ensuring a smooth, enjoyable viewing experience without lag.
Requirements for using the Youtube App
- A Zoom account
- Zoom desktop app
- Windows: version 6.2.5 or higher
- macOS: version 6.2.5 or higher
How to install from the Zoom App Marketplace
As this app is developed by Zoom, it may not require admin pre-approval, depending on Marketplace admin settings.
To install the app:
- Sign in to the Zoom App Marketplace.
- Search for YouTube.
- Click Add.
- Review the requested permissions and click Authorize. Once installed, the app is displayed under the Apps section of the Zoom desktop client.
How to use the YouTube app
- Sign in to the Zoom desktop app.
- Click Apps in a meeting.
- Open the Youtube app.
- Browse popular videos or search for a video using the search bar.
- Once you've found a video you want to play, click Play in meeting to play the video for everyone in the meeting. By default, everyone in the meeting will be able to control the playback experience.
- Click Add to queue to add a video to the meeting queque. Videos in the meeting queue will automatically play when the current video finishes. By default, everyone in the meeting will be able to add videos to the meeting queue.
Host controls
Hosts have the ability to control additional settings in the YouTube app.
- Participants can add videos to queue and play in meeting: This setting determines whether or not participants have the ability to contribute videos. When this is turned off, participants cannot play videos in the meeting or add videos to the meeting queue.
- Sync video playback for everyone: This setting determines if the video is synchronized for everyone in the meeting or if participants can watch the video at their own pace.
How to remove the YouTube app
- Sign in to the Zoom App Marketplace.
- In the top right of the page, click Manage.
- In the left navigation menu, click Added Apps.
- Next to the YouTube app, click Remove.
Data Security
This app uses the following Zoom scopes:
- Enable Zoom App within Zoom Meeting Client (zoomapp:inmeeting)
- View all user information (user:read:user)
This app uses the following Zoom Apps SDK methods:
- connect - Allows the App to communicate with the instance of the app running on the main client.
- endCollaborate - Ends Collaborate mode in a meeting.
- endCollaborateSidecar - Ends the side-car webview instance of the app.
- getAppContext - This API returns app context token that contains signed app context data for secure backend validation.
- getCollaborateContext - The API returns the collaborateUUID alongside an object containing the participantUUID of the user who initiated the collaboration and whether there is an active collaboration in progress
- getMeetingContext - It returns an object containing basic information about the meeting.
- getRunningContext - Returns the context in which the Zoom App is launched.
- getSupportedJSAPIs - Returns an array of APIs and events supported by the current running context.
- getUserContext - It returns basic information about the meeting participant while in a meeting.
- joinCollaborate - Join Collaborate mode.
- leaveCollaborate - Leave Collaborate mode.
- onCollaborateChange - The event is triggered when changes such as start, end, leave, join happen in Collaborate mode or end sidecar collaboration.
- onConnect - Notify the event listener when the API call connect has finished attempting to connect to the app instance running in the main client.
- onMessage - Receive a sent message from the mirrored app.
- onMyUserContextChange - This event is triggered when the current user’s role changes.
- onRunningContextChange - Triggers when there is a change in running context.
- onShareApp - This event occurs when the user clicks the share icon from the Zoom App sidebar during a meeting, and when the user stops the share.
- openUrl - Opens a URL in the system browser of a user's device.
- postMessage - Send a message with the current state of the mirrored app.
- sendMessage - Triggers a broadcast of JSON message data to instances of the same app for all participants in a meeting.
- shareApp - Screenshare current app.
- startCollaborate - Starts Collaborate mode in a meeting.
- startCollaborateSidecar - Runs a side-car webview instance of the app, with home URL of the app loaded by default.