Navigate YouTube Studio

Manage your channel

1. Sign in to YouTube Studio.

Use the left-hand menu to manage your videos and channel.

• Dashboard : Get a high-level overview of new activity on your channel, along with what's new on YouTube.
• Content : Find an overview of your videos, live streams, posts and playlists.
• Analytics : Monitor the performance of your channel and videos with metrics and reports in YouTube Analytics.
• Community : View and reply to comments on your videos. You can also view mentions that other creators have made of your channel.
• Subtitles : Add subtitles and captions to your videos.
• Copyright : Submit copyright takedown requests.
• Earn : If you're in the YouTube Partner Programme, you can manage your monetisation settings.
• Customisation : Customise your channel's layout, branding and basic info.
• Audio Library : Get music and sound effects to use in your videos.

Manage your videos

To manage a specific video, visit the Content page and click the video's thumbnail. You can also use the search bar to find a video.

• Details: Change your video's title, description and settings.
• Analytics: See metrics available at the video level.
• Editor: Trim your videos, add end screens, add audio tracks and blur your videos.
• Comments: View and reply to comments on that video.
• Subtitles: Add multi-language audio and translated titles and descriptions to your videos.
• Copyright: View and manage copyright claims.
• Clips: Create and manage clips.

Navigation tips

Open your channel or video

To open your channel homepage, click your profile picture Your channel. To open your video's watch page, click the video link under your video thumbnail.

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

Get help

At the top of the screen, select Help .