Video Storage & Hosting
Video Storage and Hosting
YouTube is the recommended storage and hosting solution for video. However, before you upload a video to YouTube, we recommend you contact your Cascade manager to inquire about any existing YouTube accounts or preferred practices for your department, area or school. If your manager recommends creating a new account, follow our guidelines on creating a new social media account at W&M.
Once your video is uploaded to YouTube and follows the requirements below, Cascade offers multiple solutions for incorporating it within your site — embedding a YouTube video within the content area at various sizes or creating a YouTube Widget for use in the right-hand column.
Video Requirements
Videos must include closed captions to be accessible. You can use YouTube's auto-generate function, but you must manually review them as they are only about 95% accurate and often incorrectly display proper nouns. You can also enlist the help of a captioning service to caption your videos for you.
Due to YouTube's terms of service, all videos on our Cascade websites must be designated "not made for kids" (general audience) in YouTube Studio. We recommend only embedding videos from an official W&M channel to help ensure this practice is followed.
