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.
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).
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Owners can still make people moderators, where they can reply and moderate within YouTube.com and the YouTube app.
Category |
Feature |
YT Studio permissions |
YT Studio mobile availability |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Use live chat as the channel from Live Control Room |
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Create a story |
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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
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 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)
- 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 that 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 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.
- 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.