Article updated: January 29, 2025
Connect a YouTube channel
Connect a YouTube channel to Hootsuite to manage it from the same place as your other social media accounts. When you connect a YouTube channel to Hootsuite, you can publish to it, engage with your audience, and manage subscriptions and playlists.
To add social accounts to Hootsuite organizations, you need Super Admin, Admin, or custom Add social networks organization permissions. Social accounts can only be connected to one organization, but they can be shared with multiple teams. Learn more about managing your organization's social accounts.
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Connect your YouTube channel
- In a separate browser tab or window, log out of YouTube.
- Use the following instructions for your plan type:
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Professional, Business, and Enterprise - Go to Account
, and then select Social accounts and teams. To connect a social account to a Hootsuite organization, select Manage, and then select Add a social account. Otherwise, select + Private account.
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Standard, Team, and Advanced - Go to Account
, select Social accounts and teams (BETA), select New, and then select Connect social accounts.
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Professional, Business, and Enterprise - Go to Account
- 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 create YouTube streams to manage engagement on your videos.
- When you connect 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.
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