Navigate YouTube Studio

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YouTube Studio is the abode for creators. Y'all tin can manage your presence, abound your channel, interact with your audience, and make money all in one place.

You lot tin too apply YouTube Studio with the YouTube Studio app on your mobile device.

Open YouTube Studio

You can become straight to YouTube Studio or follow these steps to get to YouTube Studio:

  1. Sign in to YouTube Studio.
  2. In the superlative right, select your contour pic .
  3. Select YouTube Studio.​

Notation: You lot might exist asked to re-authenticate when logging in.

Dark theme

Dark theme allows you to tone down your screen'southward glare and experience YouTube Studio with a dark background.

  1. Sign in to YouTube Studio.
  2. In the peak right, select your profile picture .
  3. Select Appearance and thenNighttime Theme. You can too choose "Use device theme" to use your device'south nighttime theme setting.

Become effectually

Use the pinnacle of the screen in YouTube Studio to:

Manage your aqueduct

Apply the left bill of fare to manage your videos and channel.

  • Channel dashboard: Go a high-level overview of new activity on your channel, forth with what'south new on YouTube.
  • Content: Find an overview of your videos and live streams.
  • Playlists: Create and manage your playlists.
  • Analytics: Monitor the performance of your aqueduct and videos with metrics and reports.
  • Comments & Mentions
    • Comments: View and reply to comments on your videos.
    • Mentions: (If eligible) Notice a list of mentions that other creators have made of your aqueduct.
  • Subtitles: Add subtitles to videos or crowdsource them from your community.
  • Monetization: (If eligible) Update merchandise and memberships settings.
  • Customization: Customize your channel's layout, branding, and basic info.
  • Sound Library: Get music and audio effects to use in your videos.

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Manage your videos

In YouTube Studio, you lot'll meet unlike tabs in the left bill of fare depending on whether you're viewing your entire channel, or a specific video. To manage a specific video, visit the Content page and click the video's thumbnail. You can also utilise the search bar to find a video.

  • Details: Change your video's championship, clarification, and settings.
  • Analytics: Come across metrics available at the video level.
  • Editor: Trim your videos, add end screens, add audio tracks, and blur your videos.
  • Comments: View and respond to comments on that video.
  • Subtitles: Add together translated titles and descriptions to your videos.

Navigation tips

Switch betwixt the video and channel levels

Some tools, like the video editor, but announced when you lot've selected a specific video. To see more than options, attempt switching between the channel and video levels.

To view options at the video level, click a video's title or thumbnail. To render to the channel level, select the back arrow in the top-left corner of YouTube Studio.

Quickly open up your channel or video

To open your channel homepage, click your profile moving picture in the top-left corner of YouTube Studio.

If you're editing an individual video, you'll see the video thumbnail instead. To quickly open your video's lookout man page, click this video thumbnail.

Search for your videos

To detect videos apace, employ the search bar at the top of YouTube Studio. You tin too find videos on the Content page.

Hover over info to see more options

Become the latest updates

Get assist

At the top of the screen, select Help.

Transport feedback

  1. Sign in to YouTube Studio.
  2. In the left carte du jour, select Send feedback.
  3. Type in your feedback and select Send.

Watch how to navigate YouTube Studio

Bank check out the following video from the YouTube Creators aqueduct on how to navigate YouTube Studio.

Navigating YouTube Studio

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