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Community posts tin can give y'all more accomplish on YouTube and greater engagement with your audition. Acquire more about Community tab benefits and eligibility.

Create a Customs mail

To create a Community mail service:

  1. Sign in to YouTube.
  2. At the top of the page, select Create and then Create post.
  3. In the box at the top:
  4. Select Post.

Nosotros limit how many posts a channel can create in a 24-hour period to protect the YouTube community. If you lot run into a "limit reached" error message, effort once more in 24 hours.

Schedule a post

To schedule a Community post:

  1. Sign in to YouTube.
  2. At the tiptop of the page, select Create and then  Create post.
  3. In the box at the top:
  4. Click the down arrow next to Mail service and select Schedule Post.
  5. Cull a date, time, and fourth dimension zone to publish the post.
  6. Select Schedule.

Mention other channels in a post

Y'all can mention other YouTube channels in your Community posts by inbound @ followed immediately by the channel name. The channel may get a notification that you've mentioned them. Viewers can click the mention from whatsoever device and get directly to that channel page.

Empathize types of posts

Text posts

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

Playlist posts

If you lot have Community posts turned on, you can post playlists from artists that you enjoy.

Open the playlist yous'd similar to share and copy the URL. Paste the playlist URL in the text field when creating your Community postal service.

Image and GIF posts

You can cull to upload up to five images with your post. Click image  to select images or blithe GIFs from your computer.

Guidelines

  • Size: Up to sixteen MB
  • File types: JPG, PNG, GIF, or WEBP
  • Suggested aspect ratio: We suggest 1:1 ratio because that'southward how images are shown in the feed. Viewers tin can encounter the total image by clicking to aggrandize it.

Keep in mind that images must follow YouTube Community Guidelines.

Video posts

If you cull to add together a video  to your post, you can either:

  • Search for a YouTube video
  • Paste in a YouTube video URL
  • Select a video from your YouTube aqueduct

When y'all create a post that shares a video by another creator, a notification may exist sent to the original uploader of the video. This notification helps creators acknowledge when other creators are sharing their videos.

Note: Community posts about a video already in a viewer's Subscription or Dwelling house feed might not show once again. This setting prevents your viewers from seeing the same video repeatedly.

Polls

If you lot choose to add together a poll to your post, you lot'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 some other option and enter the questions and answers.

Note: Poll options can be 65 characters max.

Manage your activity

You lot can get to and manage a history of your activity on Community posts. This feature is simply bachelor on a computer.

  1. Go to YouTube.com.
  2. From the left, click History.
  3. From the right under "History type," click Community. Yous'll encounter your Community post history.
  4. To edit or delete an activity, hover over it, click More than > Edit or Delete.

Note: A history of posts you've opened is only kept for thirty days.

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