You would think uploading a video to YouTube was piece of cake. Non so on Windows Phone! Until at present. Finally, apps have arrived and the days of fiddly and pointless email uploads have come to pass.

Windows Phone and Google products don't generally go forth, which is possibly why information technology has been such a problem to find a reliable and consequent method of uploading video from a Windows Phone device to YouTube. We previously looked at means of sharing your video clips online with Facebook and other services, in which it was revealed how to upload a clip to YouTube using email. This method is remarkable for its lack of elegance, all the same, and has fortunately been superseded by a handful of apps for which uploading to the popular video service is child's play.

Focus: Reliable Solutions

At that place are two apps we're going to focus on, Tube Pro and Nokia Video Uploader. When this mail service was conceived, I had intended to look at a third, Microsoft'due south "official" (read: designed to comply with Google'south strict specifications and ever-changing API) YouTube app.

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Even so, true to form (in August 2013 the app was blocked by Google and pulled from the Windows Telephone Store until Microsoft made some changes), at the time of writing, this app appears to take broken once over again, with endless refrains of "Something happened, we're not sure what" whenever viewing, searching or uploading a video is attempted. (Be aware that there are other bug between Google and Microsoft when it comes to Windows Phone, not least the peradventure more important event with email and calendar syncing)

This is particularly unfortunate as the app had every take chances of being the about popular YouTube app in the store. While information technology might of a sudden start working again, reliance on apps requires a certain corporeality of trust; perchance information technology is meliorate to leave this one lone at present…

Tube Pro

A consummate mobile YouTube experience for Windows Phone, Tube Pro not only allows uploading of videos to your YouTube account, it as well facilitates downloads, playlists and more than. The Sign In button in the height left enables you to connect the app to your YouTube business relationship, while uploading can only be done with videos recorded within the app, via the Recorded tile.

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Here, you can tap the photographic camera tape button to capture your clip, then intermission to cease before tapping the Upload button to send the clip to YouTube.

When uploading a video y'all tin add a title, description and tags, and it shouldn't be long before the finished product is available on YouTube.

Tube Pro is costless, but ad-supported; in that location is an ad-free version chosen SuperTube ($i.29) available.

Nokia Video Upload

Despite the title of the previous app, this is the 1 I consider the "pro" solution. It is fast, efficient and does exactly what it says. Windows Phone doesn't necessarily need any bells and whistles when it comes to YouTube apps as HTML5 video is already supported; browsing the YouTube site and streaming through the native video histrion is simple.

Nokia Video Upload makes the process of uploading a clip to YouTube largely effortless. As long as yous have added your account details, you'll be ready to upload clips each time you launch the app; recent clips are presented in a typical Windows Phone grid view for you to speedily access.

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Attributes can exist set via the bill of fare, limited to a Prune title and the pick to toggle whether the clip remains Private or not.

Borer the Upload button – best done over Wi-Fi – is the last stage, and the app displays a progress bar to let you know how long it volition exist until the upload finishes. Notation that you volition take to leave the app open (don't press Start, Back or switch the phone into standby or attempt to launch the camera) until the upload is consummate.

As with near all of the slap-up Nokia apps for Windows Telephone, this is a focused, polished app that partly resolves the trouble of a missing YouTube upload option in the device camera.

Easy Uploading to YouTube on Windows Telephone Is Finally Doable

Every bit I prefer not to exist distracted or bogged down past the presence of the full YouTube experience in Tube Pro, my favoured pick for uploading video to YouTube is the Nokia Video Upload app, available both as a standalone app and every bit a sharing pick from within the Windows Phone camera.

Tube Pro, meanwhile, is a reliable alternative, consummate with everything you could possibly need from a YouTube app, including the all-important upload tool.

Do you lot utilize either of these solutions to upload video to YouTube? Do you use another app? Permit us know in the comments below.

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