With channel permissions, you can grant people access to your channel data, tools and features in YouTube and YouTube Studio. Multiple people can be granted five different levels of permissions to manage your channel without needing access to your Google Account. Granting permissions to someone:
- Is safer than sharing your password or other sensitive sign-in details.
- Lets you specify their access level so that you can have more control over who can view or update your channel.
Channel permissions in YouTube Studio: Invite people to help manage your channel
Channel permissions role types
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Not supported |
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Owner |
Can do everything on all platforms, including:
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Manager |
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Editor |
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Editor (limited) |
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Subtitle Editor |
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Viewer |
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Viewer (limited) |
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Supported actions
Category | Access level/public actions | YT Studio on a computer | YT Studio app | YouTube |
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Granular permission control | Manager role | |||
Editor role | ||||
Editor (limited) role | ||||
Viewer-only role | – | |||
Viewer (limited) role | – | |||
Viewer-only role | – | – | ||
Video management | Upload videos/Shorts | – | ||
Create Shorts | – | – | ||
Understand video performance in YouTube Analytics or Artist Analytics | ||||
Manage videos (metadata, monetisation, visibility) | ||||
Create a playlist | ||||
Add a video to an existing public playlist | ||||
Manage playlists | – | – | ||
Live stream as the channel | – | – | ||
Captions, private video sharing | – | – | ||
Channel management | Customise/manage the channel homepage | |||
Community engagement | Create a post | – | – | |
Manage Community posts, including deleting posts | – | |||
Delete Community posts | [Manager only] | – | [Manager only] | |
Reply to comments as the channel from YouTube Studio | – | |||
Comment and interact with comments on another channel's videos as the channel | – | – | ||
Use live chat as the channel | – | |||
Artists specific | Official Artist Channel features (e.g. concerts) | – | – | |
Use the Releases tab | [Owners, Managers, Editors and Editors (limited)] | – | – |
Public vs private activity on YouTube
While acting as a delegate for a channel directly on YouTube, there's a distinction between public and private actions.
- Public actions: Delegates can perform these actions for the channel owner and the action will be attributed to the channel.
- Public actions are listed in the table above.
- Private actions: Delegates perform these actions on their personal account that they're signed in with.
- Private actions include searching, watching videos and purchases.
Visual indicators will help delegate users to know how the action is attributed.
View bulk action history
Use the 'Bulk updates' tab in Studio Content Manager to view bulk actions carried out across assets, claimed videos, campaigns and channels that you own. From the bulk actions view, you can find:
- Action taken
- Volume of entities updated
- Bulk action status
- Timestamps
- User history
To view bulk action history,
- Sign in to Studio Content Manager.
- From the left menu, select Content updates .
- Click Bulk actions to view bulk actions.
Grant access to your channel using permissions
If you have a Brand Account, you must first migrate to channel permissions.
Add access on a computer
- Go to studio.youtube.com.
- On the left-hand side, click Settings.
- Click Permissions.
- Click Invite and enter the email address of the person who you'd like to invite.
- Click Access and select the role that you'd like to assign to this person from the table below.
- Click Done.
- Once an invitation has been sent, it will expire after 30 days.
Remove access to your channel
- 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 YouTube just yet. Even though the Owner can access these features, invited users can't access:
- YouTube Music
- YouTube Kids app
- YouTube APIs
Private actions on YouTube
Below are actions that are considered private and would be associated with a delegate's personal account:
Video management
- Downloading another channel's videos onto a mobile device with YouTube Premium.
- Downloading your own videos onto a mobile device.
Community engagement
- Liking, disliking or voting on a post.
Curation/consumption
- Searching for content or accessing search history.
- Watching a video or accessing watch history.
- Blocking users on the channel.
- Viewing subscriptions.
- Purchases (e.g. films and shows, Premium).
- Purchase history.
Find channel owner details
Find the channel owner's name and email on a computer
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 names and email addresses of everyone that has access to this channel.