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, 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. 

 

Category	Feature	Channel permissions
Granular permission control	Viewer only role	✔
	Viewer (Limited) role	✔
	Editor (Limited) role	✔
Video  management	Upload videos	✔
	Understand the video’s performance in YouTube Analytics	✔
	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	✔
	Comment on another channel's videos as the channel	Currently not supported
	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
	Commenting on Studio Mobile	Currently not supported
	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: 

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:
   • 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.
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 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.

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.