Add or remove access to your YouTube channel with channel permissions
If you have a Brand Account, switch to channel permissions to add or remove access to your YouTube channel instead. Learn how to migrate to channel permissions.
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 you can have more control over who can view or update your channel.
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Note: If you give channel access to a teen user (13-17 or the relevant age in your country or region), a guardian supervising the teen will have access to a dashboard with public info about your channel.
Channel permissions role types
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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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Supported actions
Note: Some actions may not be available at all when acting as a delegate.
| Category | Access level / Public actions | YT Studio on a computer | YT Studio app | YouTube |
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| Granular permission control | Manager role | 👁 Image |
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| Editor (Limited) role | 👁 Image |
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| Viewer only role | 👁 Image |
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| Video management | Upload videos / Shorts | 👁 Image |
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| Create Shorts | — | — | 👁 Image |
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| Understand video performance in YouTube Analytics or Artist Analytics | 👁 Image |
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| Manage videos (metadata, monetization, visibility) | 👁 Image |
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| Create a playlist | 👁 Image |
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| Add a video to an existing public playlist | 👁 Image |
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| Manage playlists | — | — | 👁 Image |
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| Live stream as the channel | 👁 Image |
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| Captions, private video sharing | 👁 Image |
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| Channel management | Customize / manage the channel homepage | 👁 Image |
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| Community engagement | Create a post | — | — | 👁 Image |
| Manage Community posts, not including deleting posts | 👁 Image |
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| Delete Community posts | [Manager only] | — | [Manager only] | |
| Reply to comments as the channel from YouTube Studio | 👁 Image |
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| Comment and interact with comments on another channel's videos as the channel | — | — | 👁 Image |
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| Use Live Chat as the channel | 👁 Image |
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| Artists specific | Official Artist Channel features (for example, concerts) | 👁 Image |
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| 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 know how the action is attributed.
Grant access to your channel using permissions
If you have a Brand Account, you must first migrate to channel permissions.
- Open the YouTube Studio app 👁 Image
. - Tap your profile picture 👁 Image
. - Tap Settings 👁 Image
👁 and then
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. - Tap Invite and enter the email address of the person you’d like to invite.
- Select the role you’d like to assign to this person.
- Tap Send Invitation.
Note: Once an invite is sent, it expires after 30 days.
- Tap Send.
Remove access to your channel
- Open the YouTube Studio app 👁 Image
. - Tap your profile picture 👁 Image
. - Tap Settings 👁 Image
👁 and then
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. - Select the person you’d like to remove and tap Remove.
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 other 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 channel.
- Viewing subscriptions.
- Purchases (for example: Movies and Shows, Premium).
- Purchase history.
Find channel owner details
Note: Only managers and the owner can view names and emails of people that have access to a channel.
- Open the YouTube Studio app 👁 Image
. - Tap Settings 👁 and then
Permissions. - You’ll see the list of people that have access to the channel.
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