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GuidedYou accept an invitation, then confirm it.

Your client invites your Google user to their channel on YouTube Studio’s own screen, with our steps beside it: Settings, Permissions, then Invite. YouTube’s API has nothing for channel permissions, so nobody signs in through the link for this. The invitation expires after 30 days; you accept it, then confirm on your dashboard.

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In preview: sign-up is by invitation, and until Meta and Google approve the app, it works with simulated and test accounts only.

The steps your client gets for YouTube Studio, in the box. Example data.

The same steps as a guide your client can read: How to give an agency access to your YouTube channel

What you can ask for

You pick one level when you create the link. Each is shown with Google’s own name for it.

  • ViewViewerSee all channel details and analytics, including revenue. Cannot edit, upload or publish. A new link starts here.
  • StandardEditorEdit everything, upload and publish content, and link Google Ads accounts. Cannot delete published content or manage permissions.
  • AdminManagerEverything an editor can do, plus deleting content and managing who has access. Cannot delete the channel. Needs a verified agency.

What you give us once

Google user. A Google user: the email address of the Google Account that receives access. It is filled in with the Google account you connected, if you connected one.

What your client needs

The box tells your client before they start: “You need to be the owner or a manager of the channel.”

If the person who opens the link is not that person, the same link works for whoever is.

When it counts as given

Nothing can read Google for you, so your client’s “done” alone never finishes the link. You confirm it on the client’s page once you can see the access, and the dashboard says Confirmed by your team with the date.

Google sends you an invitation. You accept it, then confirm on the client’s page.

The invitation expires 30 days after your client sent it.

Removing the access later

The access is given on Google, so it is removed there. Your client does this:

  1. Sign in to YouTube Studio. On the left-hand side, click Settings, then Permissions.
  2. Go to the agency’s person, click the down arrow under “Role”, and choose Remove access.

What to check on every platform when an agency leaves is in How to remove an old agency's access to your Meta and Google accounts.

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Questions

The channel is on a Brand Account. Does it work?

YouTube asks the owner to move the channel to channel permissions first. After that, the invitation works as the steps say.

Can I ask for the Owner role?

No. Manager is the highest role a link asks for. A manager can do everything an editor can, plus deleting content and managing who has access, but cannot delete the channel.

Does the Viewer role see revenue?

Yes. YouTube’s Viewer sees all channel details and analytics, including revenue. It cannot edit, upload or publish.

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