Start your Community

Communities are a dedicated space for you and your audience to connect with each other right from your channel. In your Community, your subscribers can start discussions about your videos, share pictures, start polls and take part in other activities that create more engagement around your videos. You can choose whether or not you want to make a Community available on your channel.

Communities on YouTube

You can start your own Community if:

• You have existing access to posts
• You're over the age of 16 and your channel is not set up as a supervised experience
• Your audience is not set as Made for Kids
• Your channel is not a Vevo channel

Learn more about how to moderate your Community and the option to set channel guidelines for posts.

Turn on your Community

1. Sign in to YouTube.
2. Go to your channel page click the Posts tab.
3. Click Turn on my Community.

You can also turn on your Community in YouTube Studio through your content controls settings, or in your Community tab by selecting Viewer posts at the top and then Turn on.

Write a welcome post

Once you've turned on your Community, you can write a welcome post for your subscribers.

1. On your computer, go to your channel page.
2. Click Visit Community.
3. In the box at the top:
   • Write your welcome post, add images or create a poll.
4. Click Post.

Reply to posts

Once a viewer has posted on your Community, you can leave them a reply.

1. On your computer, go to your channel page.
2. Click Visit Community.
3. Go to the post that you want to reply to Click Comments . You'll see the Post comments page.
4. Type your reply.
5. Click Post.