YouTube

YouTube

How it works: YouTube
How it works: YouTube
How it works: YouTube
How it works: YouTube
How it works: YouTube
How it works: YouTube
Overview

Watch Videos Together, Anytime, in High Quality!

Bring the fun of YouTube into your Zoom Meetings with the YouTube app for Zoom—perfect for social hangouts, study groups, and team discussions. Easily browse trending videos or search YouTube's entire library. When you find a video, click "Play in meeting" to start a synchronized viewing experience where everyone can join in the fun.
By default, all participants can control playback, adding to the shared meeting queue or adjusting volume—creating a true watch party. For structured sessions like classes or presentations, hosts can manage controls to ensure a focused experience, including limiting participant control or enabling individual playback options.
Unlike screen sharing, the YouTube app for Zoom provides high-quality video for each participant without lag, making every viewing vibrant and interactive.

Key Features:

  • Popular & Searchable Content: Access YouTube's trending videos or search the entire library to find exactly whatyou're looking for.
  • Group Control & Sync: By default, all participants can control playback, making it easy to pause, play, or skip in sync.
  • Shared Meeting Queue: Add videos to a shared meeting queue, letting everyone in the meeting contribute to the playlist and see what's up next.
  • Host Control for Focused Sessions: Hosts can choose to limit participant controls to support presentations, classes, and focused sessions.
  • Flexible Viewing Options: Hosts can decide between synchronized playback for all or allow each participant to watch at their own pace.
  • High-Quality Viewing: Each participant views the video in high quality without lag, unlike standard screen sharing.

Enjoy a new way to watch YouTube videos together, creating memorable experiences with seamless controls and quality playback in your Zoom Meetings!

Developer resources

Business name

Zoom Communications Inc.

Email address

trust@zoom.us

Telephone number

+1-8887999666

Business address

55 Almaden Blvd Ste 600, San Jose CA 95113-1612

Privacy & Compliance
Requirements
User role
Any user
Zoom account eligibility
Login to check
Permissions - App can view information
Associated with you

May include user name, display name, picture, email address, phone number, job information, stated locale, account, user ID, contact lists added by the account or user (which may include contact information a user imports from a third-party app), and other profile information.

Information about participants’ computers, phones, and other devices, which may include information about speakers, microphone, and camera, OS version, hard disk ID, PC name, MAC address, IP address (and general location at the country level derived from it), and other device information.

Preferences and settings, which may include whether a passcode or a waiting room is required, permitted event capacity, screen sharing settings, and other settings and configuration information.

Associated with you and others who participate in Zoom experiences with you

Information that is necessary for the app to function properly, which may include your Zoom user ID, session IDs, meeting role, and other basic identifiers and information about your meeting, webinar, or chat.

Content generated in Zoom products, which may include audio, video, messages, transcriptions, feedback, responses to polls and Q&A, and files, and related context , such as invitation details, meeting or chat name, and meeting agenda.

Information about how people and their devices interact with Zoom products, which may include when participants join/leave, whether participants sent messages and who they message with, performance data, and other usage information and metrics.

Permissions - App can manage information
Associated with you

Manage cameras and microphones on the device(s) where you use this app, including switching between available cameras and microphones (e.g. laptop, webcam) and turning them on/off.

Associated with you and others who participate in Zoom experiences with you

Manage content and information generated in the context of Zoom experiences, which may include audio, video, messages, meeting or chat name, agenda, transcriptions, and responses to polls and Q&A.

This app can access the following information anytime including outside of a Zoom experience and when the app is not actively in use.
Scopes

User

user:read:user

Chat

imchat:userapp

Zoom App

zoomapp:inmeeting

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