How to add a YouTube Manager

by | Dec 15, 2015 | Blog, Subscriber Nation | 2 comments

Let’s face it – you can’t do everything. If you’re still starting out, sure, you can do everything from content creation to publishing, but once your channel takes off and you start taking on more responsibilities, you’re going to need some help.

That’s where a YouTube manager comes in.

In this video, I’m going to show you how to add a YouTube manager to help you manage your YouTube channel.

Check out my updated blog post for 2016.

Two types of YouTube managers

  1. Manager – can upload and edit YouTube videos. They can also tweak descriptions, add closed captions, schedule videos and look at your analytics.
  2. Communications Manager – can answer comments and communicate on your behalf.

How to add a YouTube manager

  1. Log in to your YouTube account. Click your avatar on the upper right hand corner.
  2. Click the cog icon beside ‘Creator Studio’ to access your settings.
  3. Click ‘Add or remove managers’. 
  4. Click ‘Add managers’ then add their email address. Under the ‘+Add names or email addresses’ field is a drop down menu where you can choose whether you want them to be a Manager or Communications Manager
  5. Click ‘Invite’. Once they accept, they’ll be listed as a manager for your page.

The great thing about all of this is you don’t have to give your Gmail password away! Go ahead and test it out – add a YouTube manager to your channel so you can focus more on creating content for your audience or online business.

2 Comments

  1. Alec
    Alec on February 9, 2016 at 4:01 am

    My colleagues want to add us as managers to their youtube channel. They sent us an invite to our personal email account (name@mymaildomain.com where @mymaildomain is not @google.com) we haven’t had an email come through.

    Can they send invites only to users registered on google?

    In addition we tried to create a Google account using the username name@maildomain.com where @maildomain is my business domain (not @google.com). But after a day of waiting we still haven’t had an email come through.

    • Brighton West
      Brighton West on February 19, 2017 at 5:43 pm

      Sorry to hear you’re having trouble. Unfortunately, your question exceeds my level of knowledge of the workings at Google. I’ve had trouble getting the emails in the past, but for the last year, it’s been working smoothly for me. I was never able to find a pattern. Best of luck to you!