YouTube RSS Feed Format

YouTube Channel and RSS Feed Code for 2015

YouTube RSS feeds can be used to spread your own videos out to social media networks or to curate content to give some variety to the items you are posting to social platforms.

To get started with video marketing, all you need is the coding for individual or company channels, the URL of specific videos, playlist URLs, and YouTube RSS feeds.

Here’s the format for 2015, each followed by an example from our own channel:

• Video URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID
  Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1LNTvZ9aQk See this live
• Channel URL: https://www.youtube.com/channel/Channel_ID
  Example using Channel ID number:
  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWoGKO12rRDjPfwsbaEixYw See this Live
  Example using Vanity name:
  https://www.youtube.com/user/kidsandmoneytoday/
  Example going straight to Video List:
  https://www.youtube.com/user/kidsandmoneytoday/videos See this live
• Playlist:
  https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=Playlist-ID
  Example:
  https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLX91gCOrCEWUSJqbRr0rx-ODpoFz-8S27 See this live
• RSS Feed using Channel ID:
  https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=CHANNEL_ID
  Example:
  https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCWoGKO12rRDjPfwsbaEixYw
  See this live
• RSS Feed using Playlist ID:
  https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?playlist_id=PLAYLIST_ID
  Example:
  https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?playlist_id=PLX91gCOrCEWUSJqbRr0rx-ODpoFz-8S27
  See this live

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