Article updated: February 21, 2023
Add a YouTube channel
Add a YouTube channel to Hootsuite to manage it from the same place as your other social media accounts. When you add a YouTube channel to Hootsuite, you can publish to it, engage with your audience, and manage subscriptions and playlists.
Super admins, admins, and those with custom organization permissions to Add Social Networks can add social accounts to organizations.
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Add a YouTube channel
- In a separate browser tab or window, log out of YouTube.
- In Hootsuite, go to My profile
, and then select Manage accounts and teams. - Professional plans: Select + Private account.
Team, Business, and Enterprise plans: Select Manage beside your organization name, and then select Add a social network. - Select YouTube.
- Sign in to the Google account that owns the YouTube channel. Enter the Google account credentials (email and password) and then select the Google account that owns the YouTube channel.
- Select Allow.
Note:
- In the Hootsuite mobile app, publishing to YouTube is not supported. You can add YouTube streams to manage engagement on your videos.
- When you add social accounts on mobile, they are added to your private accounts. To add social accounts to an organization, use the web version of Hootsuite.
- Select your profile picture to manage your account.
- Select Social accounts.
- Select the plus icon +, and then select YouTube.
- Sign in to the Google account that owns the YouTube channel. Enter the Google account credentials and then select the Google account that owns the YouTube channel.
- Select Allow.
To verify whether your Google account owns a YouTube channel, sign in to your YouTube account settings page. Your YouTube channel will be listed there, or you will see Create a channel if you don't have one yet.
Note: If you have access to Hootsuite Impact, you'll need to add your social accounts to Impact too. See Connect your accounts to Impact.
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