# Collections, Playlists & Tags

URL: https://docs.boldvideo.com/guides/collections-playlists







Bold gives you three organizational tools. They look similar but serve different jobs:

| Tool            | What it is                   | Use it for                                        |
| --------------- | ---------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------- |
| **Collections** | Groups a video belongs to    | Course modules, event archives, content areas     |
| **Playlists**   | Ordered sequences you curate | Learning paths, featured series, onboarding flows |
| **Tags**        | Freeform labels              | Cross-cutting themes, filtering, API queries      |

A video can be in many collections, many playlists, and carry many tags at once.

## Collections

Create collections from the sidebar of the **Videos** page (click **New Collection**), then add videos either from the collection itself or from a video's edit page (sidebar → **Collections**).

Collections shine as filters: the library sidebar, the portal, the API (`?collection_id=`), and AI features (scope a chat or recommendation to one collection) all understand them.

## Playlists

Playlists live in their own section of the admin panel.

<img alt="The playlists overview" src={__img0} placeholder="blur" />

Click **New Playlist**, give it a title, description, and cover image, then add videos. Drag to reorder. The order is what viewers see.

<img alt="Editing a playlist" src={__img1} placeholder="blur" />

### Featured playlists

Under **Settings → Featured Playlists** you choose which playlists appear prominently in your portal (and in the `featured_playlists` field of the [Settings API](/api/reference/settings)). Click a playlist to feature it, drag to order, hit **Save**.

## Tags

Add tags on the video edit page (sidebar → **Tags**). Tags appear as filters in your library sidebar and can be used to scope API queries and AI features (`tags: ['sales']`).