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. Note that Brand Accounts using channel permissions, including owners, temporarily can't use Live Control Room. 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 that they need.
  • Is less confusing by making the user comment or view videos on YouTube with their own channel.
Limitations

At the moment, people that you've invited to manage your channel:

  • Can only manage your channel in YouTube Studio on a computer or partially on a mobile.
  • Can't manage via YouTube.com or YouTube APIs.
  • Can't do certain actions in YouTube Studio (see the table below).
  • Owners can still make people moderators, where they can reply and moderate within YouTube.com and the YouTube app.

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 

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Viewer (limited) role

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Editor (limited) role

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  Subtitle Editor role ""

Video management

Upload videos

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Understand the video's performance in YouTube Analytics or Artist Analytics

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Manage videos (metadata, monetisation, visibility)

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Add a video to a playlist/create a playlist

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Manage playlist order

Live stream as the channel

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Classic features: Captions, private video sharing

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Channel management

Customise/manage the channel homepage (excluding custom URL management and changing channel title)

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Community engagement

Create a post

Manage Community posts, including deleting posts

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Reply to comments as the channel from YouTube Studio

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Comment on another channel's videos as the channel

Use live chat as the channel from Live Control Room

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Create a story

Artists specific

Official Artist Channel features (e.g. concerts)

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

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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 that you'd like to assign to this person:
     

    Role

    Supported

    Not supported

    Owner

    Can do everything on all platforms, including:
    • Delete the channel
    • Manage live streams and live chat
    • Manage permissions
    • Can't transfer ownership to other users

    Manager

    • Can view all channel data
    • Can manage permissions
    • Can edit channel details
    • Can manage live streams
    • Can create, upload, publish and delete content (includes drafts)
    • Can chat or moderate chat within Live Control Room
    • Can't delete channel
    • Can't link Google Ads accounts

    Editor

    • Can view all channel data
    • Can edit everything
    • Can upload and publish content
    • Can manage live streams
    • Can delete drafts
    • Can chat or moderate chat within Live Control Room
    • Can't delete channel or published content
    • Can't manage permissions
    • Can't enter into contracts
    • Can't delete scheduled/live/completed streams
    • Can't delete or reset stream keys
    • Can't link Google Ads accounts

    Editor (limited)

    • Same permissions as Editor
    • Same limitations as Editor
    • Can't access revenue data (includes chat revenue and viewer activity tab)
    Subtitle Editor
    • Can add, edit, publish and delete subtitles on eligible videos
    • Same limitations as Editor
    • Can't edit anything (except video subtitles)
    • Can't access revenue data (includes chat revenue and viewer activity tab)
    • Can't upload and publish content (except video subtitles)
    • Can't manage live streams
    • Can't delete drafts
    • Can't chat or moderate chat within Live Control Room
    • Can't manage live streams
    • Can't delete scheduled/live/completed streams
    • Can't chat or moderate chat within Live Control Room
    • Can't view all channel data

    Viewer

    • Can view (but not edit) all channel details
    • Can create and edit YouTube Analytics groups
    • Can view revenue data (including chat revenue and viewer activity tab)
    • Can view/monitor created streams, pre-live and whilst live
    • Can view all stream settings except the stream key
    • Can't manage live streams
    • Can't delete scheduled/live/completed streams
    • Can't chat or moderate chat within Live Control Room

    Viewer (limited)

    • Same permissions as Viewer
    • Same limitations 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 that 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.
  • YouTube.com, YouTube Music, the YouTube Kids app or YouTube APIs.

We plan on supporting these features 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 address. You may need this info, for example, to ask them to verify a phone number for their channel to get access to certain features.

Note: Only managers and the owner can see the names and emails of people that have access to a channel.
  1. Go to studio.youtube.com
  2. Click Settings and then Permissions.
  3. You'll see the name and email of everyone that has access to this channel. Make note of the owner's info.
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