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Connect YouTube

What you need

  • A Google account that has a YouTube channel. If the account has no channel yet, create one on YouTube first.
  • A video for every post. YouTube posts cannot be text only or images only.

Connect your channel

  1. In the left menu, click Connected Accounts.
  2. Under Add a channel, find YouTube and click Connect.
  3. Google opens. Choose the account for the channel you want to post to.
  4. Google lists what Schedule & Chill asks for: uploading videos and viewing your YouTube account. Allow it.
  5. You come back and see YouTube account connected successfully.

YouTube connections renew by themselves. You do not need to reconnect unless you remove access in your Google account.

Post a video to YouTube

  1. Click Create Post and select your YouTube channel.
  2. Add one video. Images are not supported on YouTube.
  3. Write your caption. By default the first line becomes the video title and the rest becomes the description.
  4. Open the YouTube settings to change anything below, then publish or schedule.
Setting What it does Default
Video title The title on YouTube, up to 100 characters The first line of your caption
Description The text under the video, up to 5,000 characters Your caption after the first line
Privacy Public, Unlisted or Private Public
Category The YouTube category, for example Education or Gaming People & Blogs
Is this made for kids? Required by YouTube. You are responsible for choosing correctly. No, it's not made for kids

Good to know:

  • The characters < and > are removed from the title and description, because YouTube does not accept them.
  • There is no separate Shorts setting. YouTube decides on its side how to show your video.
  • You can publish up to 10 YouTube videos per day.

Analytics

YouTube reports views, impressions, reach, likes and comments, so you get the full Analytics page for it.

If something goes wrong

You see What to do
Failed to connect account: No YouTube channel found for this account The Google account you picked has no channel. Create a channel on YouTube, or connect again with the right account.
YouTube requires a video file to publish. Add a video to the post.
Daily youtube publishing limit reached … You hit the daily limit. The post waits in Needs attention — retry it the next day.
A red Reconnect badge on the channel Access was removed in your Google account. See Reconnect or disconnect a channel.
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