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.
Right now, people you’ve invited to manage your channel:
- can only manage your channel in YouTube Studio on computer, not on mobile, Youtube.com, or via 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.
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Category |
Feature |
Channel permissions |
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Granular permission control |
Viewer only role |
✔ |
|
Viewer (Limited) role |
✔ |
|
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Editor (Limited) role |
✔ |
|
|
Video management |
Upload videos |
✔ |
|
Understand the video’s performance in YouTube Analytics |
✔ |
|
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Manage videos (metadata, monetization, visibility) |
✔ |
|
|
Add a video to a playlist / create a playlist |
✔ |
|
|
Manage playlist order |
Currently not supported |
|
|
Live stream as the channel |
Currently not supported |
|
|
Classic features: captions, private video sharing |
✔ | |
|
Mobile uploads |
Currently not supported |
|
|
Channel management |
Customize / manage the channel homepage (including WYSIWYG) |
✔ |
|
Community engagement |
Create a post |
Currently not supported |
| Manage Community posts, including deleting posts | ✔ | |
|
Reply to comments as the channel from YouTube Studio |
✔ |
|
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Comment on another channel's videos as the channel |
Currently not supported |
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Create a story |
Currently not supported |
|
|
Studio Mobile |
Analytics on Studio Mobile (including Artist analytics) |
Currently not supported |
|
Video updates on Studio Mobile |
Currently not supported |
|
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Commenting on Studio Mobile |
Currently not supported |
|
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View only and without revenue roles on Studio Mobile |
Currently not supported |
|
|
Artists specific |
Official Artist Channel features (e.g., concerts) |
✔ |
Channel Permissions in YouTube Studio: Invite People to Help Manage Your Channel
To add access:
- Go to studio.youtube.com.
- On the left-hand side, click Settings.
- Click Permissions.
- Click Invite and enter the email address of the person you’d like to invite.
- Click Access and select the role you’d like to assign to this person:
- Manager: Can add or remove others and edit channel details. And upload, edit, publish, and delete videos. Can’t delete the channel.
- Editor: Can upload and edit videos, and delete draft videos. Can’t add or remove others, delete published videos or the channel, or enter into contracts.
- Editor (Limited): Can upload and edit videos, and delete draft videos. Can't add or remove others, delete videos or the channel, enter into contracts or see revenue information.
- Viewer: Can view (but not edit) channel details.
- Viewer (Limited): Can view (but not edit) channel details except revenue information.
- Click Save.
To remove or change access:
- Go to studio.youtube.com.
- On the left-hand side, click Settings.
- Click Permissions.
- Go to the person you’d like to remove and click the Down arrow.
- 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 playlist editing
- Live Control Room
- YouTube.com, any of the YouTube apps (including Studio Mobile), and 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.
- Go to studio.youtube.com.
- Click Settings > Permissions.
- You’ll see the name and email of everyone that has access to this channel. Make note of the owner’s info.