SparkVox has always supported pasting a YouTube URL when you start a new project - Sparky pulls the public metadata and captions, then runs the same drafting pipeline as an uploaded file. That workflow still works. The problem it never solved is the step before it: remembering to do it at all.
The gap was never the pipeline - it was the reminder
Most creators who publish to YouTube regularly do not sit down after every upload and think "now let me go turn this into LinkedIn posts." The video goes live, the next task takes over, and the recording sits in the channel doing exactly one job - reaching people who already subscribe on YouTube. LinkedIn never sees it unless someone remembers to manually bring it over.
Channel sync removes the remembering. Connect your channel once, and SparkVox checks for new uploads every hour on its own.
How to connect your YouTube channel
- Go to Settings → Integrations → Content sources in SparkVox and connect your YouTube channel via Google.
- The connection is read-only - SparkVox can see your channel and its uploads, and nothing more. It never posts, comments, or changes anything on YouTube.
- On connect, SparkVox backfills your 20 most recent uploads as suggestions so you have something to work with immediately.
- From there, an hourly check compares your uploads playlist against what SparkVox has already seen and adds anything new.
What shows up after you connect
New Project → YouTube now has a dropdown above the URL field listing your suggested videos - thumbnail, title, publish date, and duration. Picking one skips the metadata lookup step entirely, since SparkVox already has it, and drops straight into moment extraction and drafting.
If you would rather not check the dropdown yourself, an optional email fires the first time a new video is synced, with a link straight into New Project with that video preselected. Turn it off under Settings → Notifications without losing the sync itself.
What happens to suggestions you never use
Not every upload is worth turning into LinkedIn posts - a housekeeping video, a livestream replay, a short you posted for YouTube's algorithm specifically. Suggestions you never pick simply expire after 90 days, so the dropdown does not fill up with stale entries. Picking a video, or manually pasting its URL later, marks it used either way.
Channel sync vs manual URL import
Manual URL import remains the simplest path for a one-off video, a guest appearance on someone else's channel, or any link outside your own account. Channel sync is for the recurring case: a channel you publish to on a schedule, where the content is worth repurposing every time. Most people end up using both - sync for their own uploads, manual paste for everything else.
For the full picture on how a single recording becomes multiple posts, see what is content repurposing and how to repurpose a podcast episode into LinkedIn posts. For the meeting-notetaker equivalent of this same idea, see turning Fireflies calls into LinkedIn posts.