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id: PUB-1
title: Channels and publishing
group: Publishing
summary: Uploading a film, links, PINs, following, and what goes where
keywords: [publish, upload, upload to channel, channel, primary, link, share link, pin, require pin, revoke, follow, unfollow, feed, uploads, following, import, report, take down, transfers, hide, wi-fi, safari, web]
---

A channel is a shelf of films with its own name and link. Anyone can watch a film from its link, in the app or in a browser. Uploading needs a *Hosting Plan* (PUB-2).

## Upload a film

Tap share, then **Upload to Channel**. Tick one or more channels, or tap the plus to make one, then tap **Upload**. Everyone starts with one channel, *Primary*, which you can rename.

The film is cut first, so *Keep Camcorder open* until **Hide** appears. After that it *carries on if you leave*. On cellular, a long film asks first: **Wait for Wi-Fi** or **Use cellular**.

**Hide** moves a long upload or import out of the way. It shows as a line at the top of the screen, opens **Transfers**, and on iPhone shows on the Lock Screen. Every **Cancel** asks first, and stopping a first upload deletes what went up.

## Links

Tap share, then **Published**, then **Share link**. A film's link opens it on one of its channels, with everything else on that channel beside it. A film on no channel is not shared.

Change a film and upload again: the link stays, and only what changed is sent.

## Require PIN

In **Channels**, tap a channel's •••, then **Edit**, and turn on **Require PIN**: four digits. People enter it once, and following keeps them in. The PIN goes in the message when you share the link. **Revoke everyone** asks everyone for a new PIN, on phones and televisions.

## Following

Opening a film or a channel from a link follows it, unless you unfollowed it before. You can follow or unfollow from a film's ••• or a channel's row.

The TV mark on home opens the feed, with four sections: **Feed**, **Uploads**, **Following** and **Channels**. Home's mark and the app icon show how many films are new. The icon's number is the only notification permission the app asks for. It sends no alerts or sounds.

## On a film

Paused, swipe sideways to move between films. Tap a film's ••• for what you can do. On someone else's film: **Import**, to choose its clips and bring them into a project, unchanged, **Open in Safari**, and **Report**. You can report a film on the TV and on its web page too. A person reads every report.

## Take down

On your film, tap **Take down**. Its videos and link are deleted from the web, and anyone with the link can no longer watch it. Nothing is deleted from your phone. Uploaded again, it gets a new link.

## What goes where

What goes up is your clips as you cut them, when each was filmed, its filter, a short code for the phone that filmed it, and the music. Nothing of a clip outside your cuts goes up, and neither does where it was filmed. A viewer sees your channel's name, not who you are.