YouTube Direct Lite provides similar functionality to YouTube Direct, and is much easier to set up. Please read https://code.google.com/p/youtube-direct-lite/ before using YouTube Direct in a new project.

The YouTube Direct (YTD) platform consist of 2 components:

The embeddable YTD container * Google AuthSub authentication to YouTube * YouTube video uploads * Photo uploads to Picasa.

The YTD admin panel * Manage assignments * Manage video submissions * Manage photo submissions * Generate embed code for YTD container for each assignment * Preview submitted videos and photos * Search filter for assignments and submissions

To get started, please read the Getting Started guide.

While it's recommended to sync to the SVN repository so that future updates can be easily retrieved, you can also download a packaged tarball of the YTD project.

Check out reference implementations of YouTube Direct sumission apps for the iPhone and Android.