Connect your YouTube channel and Sam can read your channel and video analytics, reply to comments, and tidy up titles, descriptions and tags. Anything that changes your channel waits for you to confirm first.
What Sam can look up in YouTube
- Your channel details, subscriber count and channel analytics, such as views and watch time
- Your videos and playlists, and each video's statistics and analytics
- The comments on any of your videos
- Other channels and public videos, found by ID or keyword
What Sam can do in YouTube
- Reply publicly to a comment on your videos. Asks you first.
- Update a video's title, description, tags or privacy setting. Asks you first.
- Delete a video from your channel. It can't be undone from Sam. Asks you first.
Anything marked Asks you first pauses and waits for you to confirm before it runs.
What Sam can't do in YouTube yet
- Upload a new video.
- Change your thumbnails or edit playlists.
Connect YouTube
- →The Google account that manages your YouTube channel. The sign-in happens through Google.
Step 1 - Open the integrations marketplace
Select Connect your tools at the bottom of the left sidebar, above your profile. Search for YouTube or find it under Browse Integrations.
Step 2 - Sign in and approve
Select Connect. Sam shows what it will be able to do, then sends you to Google's own sign-in page. Sign in with the account you want Sam to work in and approve the access.
Step 3 - Name it and choose who can use it
Give the connection a name, choose who on your team can use it, and select Finish setup. It moves to your Connected tab.
When you connect, you may see a screen of checkboxes, and some are easy to scroll past. Sam can only do what you allow. If you untick one, the matching actions in the list above will fail with a permission error.
If Sam says it can't reach YouTube later on, see When Sam can't reach one of your tools.
Frequently Asked Questions
Will Sam change my channel without asking?
No. Replying to comments, updating a video and deleting a video all stop and ask you to confirm first.
Can Sam upload my videos?
Not yet. Upload the video in YouTube Studio, then ask Sam to write and apply the title, description and tags.