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title: How to Set Up an Alert on New YouTube Published Videos
description: "## How to Set Up an Alert on New YouTube Published Videos This is an alert that can notify Admins of a domain for every time a new YouTube video is published by a user of the domain. [![](https://gatlabs.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/screenshot-www.youtube.com-2020.04.20-14_16_52.png)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlPl6HybuE4&) ###…"
url: "https://gatlabs.com/knowledge/tech-tips/how-to-set-up-an-alert-on-new-youtube-published-videos/"
updated: "2025-04-18"
category: "Users Audit & Management"
---

# How to Set Up an Alert on New YouTube Published Videos

## How to Set Up an Alert on New YouTube Published Videos

This is an alert that can notify Admins of a domain for every time a new YouTube video is published by a user of the domain.

[![](https://gatlabs.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/screenshot-www.youtube.com-2020.04.20-14_16_52.png)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlPl6HybuE4&)

### Set up an alert rule

Open GAT+, navigate to** Alert rules** under the **Configuration **tab

![](https://gatlabs.com/knowledge/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/2025-04-18-11_27_36-Edit-Docs-How-to-set-up-Google-Drive-alerts-for-G-Suite-users-‹-GAT-Knowledge-.png)

Click on the **+ **sign and a new window will be displayed, fill in the details and click on the save.

![](https://gatlabs.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/screenshot-gs.generalaudittool.com-2020.04.20-14_10_30.png)

- Set up a **Name **for the rule
- Set the checkmark to **Enabled**
- Set the **Type **to YouTube
- Choose the scope that will be affected by this alert rule
  - It can be a user, group or org.unit
- Pick and select the **Recipient** this can be a user or group email.
- Enable the rule to  **Notify on new YouTube published videos**
- Click on **save **to activate the rule

### View result

When the rule** **is created it can be found in the Alert rules where an admin can quickly see the name of the rule, the type of the rule if it is enabled, what scope and the recipients.

Under the summary tab, an admin can see exactly the **alerts** enabled for this rule.

Under the **actions **tab, the rule can be viewed (**eye icon), **it can be **edited **from the **pen **icon, or deleted from the **x **button.

![](https://gatlabs.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/screenshot-gs.generalaudittool.com-2020.04.20-14_12_20.png)

### YouTube audit in Shield

This YouTube activity can also be viewed and audited in GAT Shield

**Video: Monitor users' YouTube activity with GAT Shield**

[![](https://gatlabs.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/screenshot-www.youtube.com-2020.04.20-14_13_36.png)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9aj4xyzCog)