My Library is a private workspace where you can upload media and recordings that live separately from your team's Shared Library.
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My Library is available to Account Owners, Managers, and Standard Users. It is not available to Limited Users.
Content you add to My Library is not visible to other users unless they have been explicitly added as collaborators. However, Account Owners and Managers can see My Library activity and access content when needed.
Upload to My Library
My Library will include two folders created for you by default: [Your Name]’s Uploads and [Your Name]’s Recordings. These are normal folders that can be deleted or renamed.
The same customization, embedding, sharing, and analytics options are available to media in My Library as in the Shared Library.
However, content in My Library cannot be archived or shared with “Anyone in my Wistia Account.” You must move media to the Shared Library before you can select that collaboration option.
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Any content uploaded to my library will contribute to your overall account usage.
Content can be moved from My Library to the Shared Library at any time. Note that content copied from My Library to the Shared Library will not retain analytics.
Folder permissions in My Library
By default, folders created in My Library have an access level of “Only Me,” meaning other users cannot access the content in that private library.
My Library folders cannot be shared with “Anyone in my Wistia Account.”
When adding a new folder to My Library, the following share options are available:
Only me: A private folder that other users cannot access.
Specific people: Invite others to collaborate on this folder.
Manage My Library content
There are several places in Wistia where Account Owners and Managers can get visibility into My Library activity and access specific folders when needed.
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When an Account Owner or Manager accesses a user's My Library through any of the following paths, they can take action on that content — including moving it to the Shared Library.
View My Library activity
As an Account Owner or Manager, you can find a user's sessions from their profile on the Manage team page. Sessions that include My Library activity will be labeled accordingly. You can navigate directly into the relevant folder from there if needed.
From the Team Activity dashboard in Settings, you can also see actions a user has taken related to their My Library.
Access My Library content
As an Account Owner or Manager, navigate to the Manage Team page and select a user to view their profile. You'll see a list of that user's My Library folders and can jump directly into any of them from there.
In account Analytics, you can view media by plays across the entire account — including media that lives in a user's My Library. From an individual media item, you can navigate into the My Library folder it belongs to.
Remove My Library for deleted users
When deleting a user, Account Owners and Managers are prompted to manage that user's My Library content before completing the deletion.
Ownership of the remaining content can be transferred to another user to ensure nothing is lost.
Head to our Media Management overview for more information on the Content Library and other media organization tools.