Add together or remove admission to your YouTube channel

If you accept a Brand Account, you lot can now use channel permissions to add or remove access to your YouTube channel instead. Annotation that Brand Accounts using aqueduct permissions, including owners, temporarily tin't use Alive 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 but 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 but manage your aqueduct in YouTube Studio on reckoner or partially on mobile.
  • Can't manage via YouTube.com or YouTube APIs.
  • Tin't exercise certain actions in YouTube Studio (See the tabular array below).
  • Owners tin 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

Characteristic

YT Studio Permissions

YT Studio Mobile Availability

Granular permission control

Viewer only role

Viewer (Express) role

Editor (Express) role

Subtitle Editor role

Video management

Upload videos

Empathize the video'southward performance in YouTube Analytics or Artist Analytics

Manage videos (metadata, monetization, visibility)

Add together a video to a playlist / create a playlist

Manage playlist gild

Live stream every bit the channel

Classic features: Captions, Individual video sharing

Channel management

Customize / manage the channel homepage (excluding custom URL management and irresolute aqueduct title)

Community date

Create a postal service

Manage Customs posts, including deleting posts

Reply to comments as the channel from YouTube Studio

Comment on another channel'due south videos as the channel

Employ Live Chat as the aqueduct from Live Command Room

Create a story

Artists specific

Official Artist Channel features (for case, 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-manus side, click Settings.
  3. Click Permissions.
  4. Click Invite and enter the email address of the person yous'd similar to invite.
  5. Click Access and select the role you lot'd like to assign to this person:

    Role

    Supported

    Not supported

    Possessor

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

    Manager

    • Can view all channel information
    • Tin can manage permissions
    • Can edit channel details
    • Can manage live streams
    • Tin create, upload, publish, and delete content (includes drafts)
    • Tin conversation or moderate chat within Live Command Room
    • Can't delete channel

    Editor

    • Tin can view all channel information
    • Tin can edit everything
    • Can upload and publish content
    • Tin manage live streams
    • Tin can delete drafts
    • Tin conversation 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

    Editor (Limited)

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

    Viewer

    • Can view (but not edit) all channel details
    • Tin create and edit YouTube Analytics groups
    • Tin view revenue information (including chat revenue and viewer activity tab)
    • Can view/monitor created streams, pre-live and while live
    • Tin can view all stream settings except the stream key
    • Tin'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 equally Viewer
    • Tin't access revenue data (includes chat revenue and viewer activeness tab)
  6. Click Save.

To remove or change access:

  1. Go to studio.youtube.com.
  2. On the left-paw side, click Settings.
  3. Click Permissions.
  4. Become to the person you'd like to remove and click the Downwardly pointer.
  5. Select a new role or click Remove access.

Note: Channel permissions don't support some parts of Studio simply nevertheless. Fifty-fifty though the owner tin access these features, invited users can't access:

  • Features that aren't built into Studio, like Customs mail service creation.
  • YouTube.com, YouTube Music, YouTube Kids app, or YouTube APIs.

We plan on supporting these features in the futurity.

To find the channel possessor'due south proper name and email:

If you manage a channel, you can detect out the channel owner'southward name and email. Yous may need this info, for case, to ask them to phone-verify their channel to get access to certain features.

Note: Only managers and the possessor can view names and emails of people that have admission to a aqueduct.

  1. Go to studio.youtube.com
  2. Click Settings and then Permissions.
  3. You'll view the name and e-mail of anybody that has admission to this aqueduct. Brand note of the owner'southward info.

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