Create a Community post

Community posts tin can give you more accomplish on YouTube and greater engagement with your audience. Learn more almost Customs tab benefits and eligibility.

Create a mail

To create a Customs post:

  1. Tap Createand thenPost.
  2. In the box at the top:
  3. Select Mail service.

We limit how many posts a aqueduct tin create in a 24-hour period to protect the YouTube community. If you lot encounter a "limit reached" mistake message, try once more in 24 hours.

Schedule a post

To schedule a Community mail:

  1. Tap Create and thenCreate a postal service.
  2. Blazon a message to create a text post or to add text to an image, GIF, or poll.
  3. Cull to create a poll  or image post.
  4. In the top right corner, tap the clock icon.
  5. Choose a date, time, and fourth dimension zone to publish the post.
  6. Select Done.
  7. On the post creation folio, click Schedule.

Share a video in a post

Share a playlist in a post

Create a alive stream post

Mention other channels in a post

Yous can mention other YouTube channels in your Community posts on a reckoner by inbound @ followed immediately by the channel name. The channel may become a notification that you've mentioned them. Viewers can click the mention from any device and go directly to that aqueduct folio.

Learn well-nigh types of posts

Text posts

To create a text postal service, enter your message in the text box on the Community tab of your channel. You can postal service your text past itself, or with a video, image, or GIF. Text posts tin can't be combined with polls.

Playlist posts

If you lot accept Customs posts turned on, you can post playlists from artists that you enjoy. Re-create and paste the playlist URL into your post.

Image and GIF posts

You can choose to upload upwards to 5 images with your post. Tap image to select images or blithe GIFs from your Android device.

Guidelines

  • Size: Up to 16MB
  • File types: JPG, PNG, GIF, or WEBP
  • Suggested attribute ratio: We propose 1:ane ratio considering that'due south how images are shown in the feed. Viewers can encounter the full image by clicking to aggrandize it.

Just utilise images that you have permission to utilize. Yous tin can also include text content with your image mail. Keep in mind that all images must follow YouTube Community Guidelines.

Video posts

On mobile devices, you lot can share videos directly in your Community tab.

When you create a mail service that shares a video by another creator, a notification may be sent to the original uploader of the video. This notification helps creators acknowledge when other creators are sharing their videos.

Note: Community posts almost a video already in a viewer'due south Subscription or Domicile feed might non show again. This setting prevents your viewers from seeing the aforementioned video repeatedly.

Polls

If you choose to add a poll to your post, you'll be asked to:

  1. Enter a question in the text field.
  2. Enter answers in the "Add option" fields.
  3. If you need more answer fields, click +Add another selection and enter the questions and answers.

Annotation: Poll options can be 65 characters max.

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