Add or remove access to your YouTube channel

If you have a Brand Account, you can now use channel permissions to add or remove access to your YouTube channel instead. Learn more.

You can have multiple people manage your channel without giving them access to your Google Account. Inviting someone to manage your channel:

• is safer than sharing your password.
• lets you give only the amount of access they need.
• is less confusing by making the user comment or view videos on YouTube with their own channel.

Limitations

Right now, people you’ve invited to manage your channel:

• can only manage your channel in YouTube Studio on computer or partially on mobile.
• can’t manage via YouTube.com or YouTube APIs.
• can’t do certain actions in YouTube Studio (See the table below).

Note: Channel permissions are still in development, so check back here to see if new features are supported. 

Category	Feature	YT Studio Permissions	YT Studio Mobile Availability
Granular permission control	Viewer only role
	Viewer (Limited) role
	Editor (Limited) role
Video management	Upload videos		—
	Understand the video’s performance in YouTube Analytics or Artist Analytics
	Manage videos (metadata, monetization, visibility)
	Add a video to a playlist / create a playlist		[add a video to a playlist]
	Manage playlist order	—	—
	Live stream as the channel	—	—
	Classic features: Captions, Private video sharing		—
Channel management	Customize / manage the channel homepage (excluding custom URL management and changing channel title)		—
Community engagement	Create a post	—	—
	Manage Community posts, including deleting posts		—
	Reply to comments as the channel from YouTube Studio		—
	Comment on another channel's videos as the channel	—	—
	Create a story	—	—
Artists specific	Official Artist Channel features (for example, concerts)		—

Channel Permissions in YouTube Studio: Invite People to Help Manage Your Channel

To add access: 

1. Go to studio.youtube.com. 
2. On the left-hand side, click Settings.
3. Click Permissions.
4. Click Invite and enter the email address of the person you’d like to invite. 
5. Click Access and select the role you’d like to assign to this person:
    

   Role	Supported	Not supported
   Owner	Can do everything on all platforms, including:  Delete the channel Manage permissions	Can't transfer ownership to other users
   Manager	Can view all channel data  Can manage permissions Can edit channel details Can create, upload, publish, and delete content (includes drafts)	Can’t delete channel
   Editor	Can view all channel data Can edit everything Can upload and publish content Can delete drafts	Can’t delete channel or published content Can’t manage permissions Can’t enter into contracts
   Editor (Limited)	Same permissions as Editor	Can’t delete channel or published content Can’t manage permissions Can’t enter into contracts Can’t access revenue data (includes chat revenue and viewer activity tab)
   Viewer	Can view (but not edit) all channel details Can create and edit YouTube Analytics groups Can view revenue data (includes chat revenue and viewer activity tab)
   Viewer (Limited)	Same permissions as Viewer	Can’t access revenue data (includes chat revenue and viewer activity tab)

6. Click Save.

To remove or change access:

1. Go to studio.youtube.com.
2. On the left-hand side, click Settings.
3. Click Permissions.
4. Go to the person you’d like to remove and click the Down arrow.
5. Select a new role or click Remove access.

Note: Channel permissions don't support some parts of Studio just yet. Even though the owner can access these features, invited users can't access:

• Features that aren’t built into Studio, like Community post creation.
• Live Control Room.
• Parts of Studio Mobile, like commenting and playlist editing.
• YouTube.com, YouTube Music, YouTube Kids app, or YouTube APIs.

We plan on supporting these in the future.

To find the channel owner’s name and email:

If you manage a channel, you can find out the channel owner’s name and email. You may need this information, for example, to ask them to phone-verify their channel to get access to certain features.

Note: Only managers and the owner can see names and emails of people that have access to a channel.

1. Go to studio.youtube.com.
2. Click Settings Permissions.
3. You’ll see the name and email of everyone that has access to this channel. Make note of the owner’s info.