> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://help.circlehd.com/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://help.circlehd.com/playlists/what-is-the-difference-between-a-channel-and-a-playlist.md).

# What is The Difference Between a Channel and a Playlist?

A Channel is a container of multiple Videos in a folder like view, in other words its categorization of similar topic videos. A Playlist on the other hand, is also grouping of videos together, but each video can be ordered and arranged with a play sequence. This playlist can be shared to CircleHD portal users and external Customers as needed. Playlist is the only way to share videos to external users.