View and manage users

These features are only available to partners who use YouTube Studio Content Manager. Contact your YouTube Partner Manager to get access.

In your Content Manager settings, the Permissions page shows Content Manager users and what role they've been assigned. 

From here, you can view all users, filter to find specific users, export a list of users and remove users who no longer need access.

View a list of users

To view a list of all the users with access to your Content Manager:

1. Sign in to Studio Content Manager.
2. From the left menu, select Settings .
3. Click Permissions.

To narrow down the list, you can click Select filter  and filter users by Keyword or Roles. Learn more about managing roles.

To export the list, go to Export a list of users.

Note: Each page shows up to 30 users.

Find a specific user

To search for a specific Content Manager user:

1. Sign in to Studio Content Manager.
2. From the left menu, select Settings .
3. Click Permissions.
4. Click Select filter   Keyword.
5. Enter a keyword, such as a name or email address  APPLY.  
   • Note: Search is not case-sensitive. Your search terms can't include wildcard characters.

Find users assigned to a role

 To view a list of all Content Manager users assigned to a specific role:

1. Sign in to Studio Content Manager.
2. From the left menu, select Settings .
3. Click Permissions.
4. Click Select filter   Roles. A list of all the roles that you've created in your Content Manager will appear.
5. Tick the box next to the role that you want to filter on. You can also start entering the name of a role to narrow down the list.

Export a list of users

To export a list of Content Manager users:

1. Sign in to Studio Content Manager.
2. From the left menu, select Settings .
3. Click Permissions.
4. Tick the box next to each user whose information you want to export.
   • To select all users on a page, click the tick box at the top.
   • To select all Content Manager users, click the tick box at the top  Select all.
5. Click Export   comma-separated values (.csv) . The file will download automatically.

Field descriptions

Field name	Description
Name	User's display name
Email address	User's email address
Role	Name of the role, e.g. Administrator
Permissions: Features	Features that a user has access to
Permissions: Restrictions	Restrictions that apply to a user, e.g. can't see revenue
STATUS	Active: User accepted invitation and has active access to your Content Manager. Invited: Invite sent, but the user hasn't accepted it. User doesn't have access to your Content Manager until the invite is accepted.
Invitation expires at	When a user's invitation expires (only shows for users with Invited status)

Remove users

To remove a user from your Content Manager:

1. Sign in to Studio Content Manager.
2. From the left menu, select Settings .
3. Click Permissions.
4. Find the user that you want to remove.
   • To narrow down the list, click Select filter   Keyword and enter their name or email address.
5. In the Access column, click the role name  and select Remove access.
6. Click DONE.
7. Back on the Permissions page, click SAVE to save changes.

A message will appear at the bottom of the page confirming that the user was successfully removed from your Content Manager.

 

Learn more about managing roles.