Tags help you organize your library without moving videos around. Create shared workspace tags for your whole team or private tags just for yourself, add them to any video, and filter My videos by tag.
- Workspace tags are shared with everyone in the workspace. Anyone can add or remove them on videos they can edit.
- Private tags are only visible to you. Adding a private tag only affects your own library — teammates won’t see it.
Each tag has a name, a color, and an optional description.
Create a tag
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In your library, open a video’s ⋯ menu, hover over Tags, and click Manage tags — or open the Tags filter on My videos and click the Manage tags button.
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Type a name for the new tag.
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Choose whether to create it as a workspace or private tag.
New tags get a color automatically. From the same tag manager you can rename a tag, change its color, add a description, share a private tag with the workspace, or delete it. Deleting a tag removes it from every video it was on.
Private tags can only be renamed or deleted by the person who created them.
Add a tag to a video
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In your library, open the video’s ⋯ menu.
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Hover over Tags.
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Check the tags you want to apply — or click Manage tags to create a new one.
Tags appear on the video’s thumbnail and as badge chips on video cards. By default the chips fade in on hover — to keep them always visible, turn on Always show playlists and tags from the ⋯ overflow menu next to the grid/list toggle, or in Settings → Preferences → Library. Tags also show up inside playlists that include the video.
Remove a tag
Open the video’s ⋯ menu, hover over Tags, and uncheck the tag. Removing a tag from a video doesn’t delete the tag itself.
Filter your library by tag
On My videos, open the tag filter and pick one or more tags. Videos need to have every selected tag to appear in the results, so combining tags narrows the list.
You can list, create, update, and delete tags — and add or remove them from videos — through the public API and MCP server. See the MCP reference for the full list of tag tools. 
