Routing: YouTube
With YouTube linked in Settings > Routing, Newsroom uploads a post’s video directly to a linked YouTube channel, independent of website publication. See Roles and permissions for who has access.
Roles and permissions
This page — like the rest of Settings > Routing, for all platforms — is only reachable for users with the Settings role (the same role used for most other Settings pages, e.g. AI settings and Plan/usage), not a separate YouTube-specific role. Without this role, opening the entire Routing page already shows an error instead of an overview of connected platforms.
Linking
Click YouTube in Settings > Routing and log in with a Google account.
The Google account must already have a YouTube channel — without an existing channel, Newsroom rejects the connection. If you run into problems (re)linking, first remove the Newsroom app via Google Account Permissions and try again — this is explicitly the recommended first step in the interface itself.
Publishing
Like Instagram, YouTube publishes independently of website publication (see also Publishing to your channels) — directly based on the video you upload to the post. Newsroom uploads the video to YouTube in a way that can continue after a brief interruption (e.g. a shaky connection), along with the title, description (including hashtags), and tags. A separate thumbnail upload step follows after the video upload.
Videos are published publicly on YouTube.
Limits and details
Maximum of 6 videos per 24 hours per broadcaster. If this limit is reached, Newsroom automatically waits until there’s room again — the video will still reach YouTube later, it’s not lost, just delayed.
The separate thumbnail step can fail for several reasons (for example an image that’s too large, over 2 MB, or a permission issue) — this doesn’t block the video publication itself. Newsroom just publishes the video; YouTube then automatically generates its own thumbnail, without Newsroom showing an error for this.
If the video upload itself fails (for example due to a connection issue, unrelated to an expired token), Newsroom automatically retries a few times. If it keeps failing after that, check whether the post has a YouTube link; if not, publish it again.
Token expiry: automatically refreshed
Unlike most other connections on these pages, Newsroom automatically refreshes an expired YouTube token right before every upload or thumbnail action — so you normally don’t need to log in again yourself. Only if Google itself revokes the connection (an “invalid grant”) does Newsroom mark the connection as unauthorized, requiring you to log in again.
Removing the connection
Delete Platform removes the connection entirely; you’ll need to log in again to use YouTube once more.