Credits on your videos
Credits provide you with the ability to tag the collaborators of your videos and link to each collaborator’s channel from your video watch page. Highlight your video stars, writers or other collaborators. Give credit to your video editors or the musician who composed your score!
Credits are currently available to channels with at least 5,000 subscribers. Once applied to a video and approved by the creator who has been credited, credits will appear below the description of your video. You’ll need to click Show more to reveal the credits.
Hover over a credit to learn a bit more about the channel which has been credited or click on the credit to visit that channel.
View comments
Comments you care about show first. You’ll see comments at the top of the list from people in your Google+ Circles, from creators, and from popular personalities. Comments with many likes and replies will rank highly as well.
Sort comments. You can choose to see the most recent comments instead. Replies are threaded so you can easily follow conversations.
Comments from more places. Google+ posts that link to videos or channels will also appear as comments on YouTube, marked “via Google+”.
Comment moderation. You can report any comment for spam or abuse. If you’re a creator, you can also use comment moderation tools for comments on your videos or your channels.
YouTube apps for Android and iOS don’t yet support all the features of the new comment system. Features that don’t yet work include:
- On Android:
- Sort by most recent comments
- On iOS and Android:
- “Via Google+” label
We’re working on updating the apps. In the meantime, you can sign in to the YouTube mobile website from your device’s browser to use these features.
Comments page
The comments page provides a single place to review and manage comments across your channel and its videos. You can find it in by clicking Comments in the “Community” section of the sidebar in the dashboard. Review all the comments across your channel, filter the comments by video using the drop down on the right, or use the search box to find comments with specific keywords. From here, you can like, remove, or flag comments for spam or abuse.
In the Published tab, you’ll see a list of all the recent, currently public, comments that have been left on your videos and your channel, sorted by newest first. The most recent two replies to a comment will show below the original comment.
The Held for Review and Marked as Spam tabs let you review comments that are held for approval based on your comment settings or marked as spam. You can choose to approve or deny these comment to be published, either individually or in bulk.
Click Reply to respond to a comment directly, or click the video title to view the comment on your video’s watch page.
You can also manage comments on mobile in the YouTube Creator Studio App:
- From the dashboard, tap the navigation guide
in the upper left corner. - From the menu, select Comments.
- Your default view will be of all public comments. Tap the settings icon to review comments that are pending or marked as spam.
- Tap the comment you’d like to review.
- You can reply to the comment, like it, remove it, or flag it from the window that opens.
in the upper left corner.
to review comments that are pending or marked as spam.If you’d like to review the comments from a particular video:
- Navigate to My Videos.
- Find the video you want to edit by scrolling through your list of videos or searching.
- Tap the video you’d like to review.
- Scroll down to the comments section where you’ll see a selection of comments.
- Tap an individual comment to review the comment or scroll down and tap View all to see a larger list of the video’s comments.
Moderate comments on your channel
If other YouTube users can post comments on your videos or channel, you can use tools to moderate or remove those comments.
Take action on comments
When someone comments on your video, you’ll get a notification. Click the arrow in the upper right of the comment to manage comments:
- Remove: Take down the comment and replies from YouTube. If the comment was also shared on Google+, it will still be visible there.
- Report spam or abuse: Report comments that you believe are spam or abuse to the YouTube team.
- Hide from channel: Block the user from posting comments on videos on your channel. If you change your mind, you can remove the user from the hidden users list in your community settings.
If someone leaves a comment that looks like spam, you’ll see a blue banner on the channel or video. You can review, approve, or delete these comments.
Go to Creator Studio > Community > Comments or youtube.com/comments and look under the Likely spamtab.
You can require that all new comments get approved before they’re posted to your video or channel.
Video comments
- Find the video in the Video Manager.
- Under the video, click Edit.
- Click Advanced Settings.
- Under “Allow comments,” select Approved.
Channel comments
Follow the instructions to turn this on for your channel in your Channel Navigation settings.
Use the YouTube Creator Studio App
- From the dashboard, touch the navigation guide .
- Touch Comments. By default, you’ll see all public comments.
- To review comments that are pending or marked as spam, touch Settings .
- Touch the comment you’d like to review.
- You can reply to the comment or like, remove, or flag it.
- Go to Videos.
- Find and select the video you want to edit.
- Scroll down to the comments section.
- Touch a comment to review it or scroll down and touch View all to see more.
Fans and Insights
Fans
The Fans page shows a list of some of your most engaged and most influential fans, based on their public interaction with your YouTube channel. By default, the list is sorted by a combination of subscriber count and engagement level, but you can also sort by either factor on its own.
Note: This page only appears if your channel has at least 1000 subscribers.
Fan Information
For each person on the list, you can see how many subscribers they have, how engaged they are with your channel, an example comment they’ve left on one of your videos, and how long they’ve been a subscriber. Engagement is based on that person’s public interactions with your channel, such as commenting, liking, subscribing, etc.
Set filters & default view for comments
Set up comment filters
In Community Settings, you can set up filters to help you manage new comments and messages.
Go to Creator Studio > Community > Community settings or youtube.com/comment_management. Choose from the following filters:
Select Approved users to show the users whose comments will automatically be approved and shown (even if you’ve chosen to hold comments for approval).
- Go to Creator Studio > Community > Comments or
youtube.com/comments. - On a comment left by the user you want to make an approved user, click the drop-down arrow next to the flag icon.
- Select Always approve comments from this user.
Select Hidden users to show the users whose comments will never be shown.
- Go to Creator Studio > Community > Comments or
youtube.com/comments. - On a comment left by the user you want to make a hidden user, click the drop-down arrow next to the flag icon.
- Select Hide this user’s comments on this channel.
You can add a list of words and phrases that you want to review before they’re allowed in comments on your video or channel. Just add them to the box next to Blacklist and use a comma to separate words and phrases in the list.
Comments closely matching these terms will be held for your approval — unless they were posted by someone on your approved user list.
Set comment defaults
You can set your comment moderation preferences for comments on new videos or on your channel.
Go to Creator Studio > Community > Community settings or youtube.com/comment_management and change the settings at the bottom of the page.
Creator credits
Add credits to your videos
If you have at least 5,000 subscribers, you’ll have access to Credits, which you can use to highlight the contributions of your collaborators with a credit that appears on your video below the description.
To add credits to your videos:
- Open the video you’d like to edit
- On the basic info tab, scroll down to the “Video Credits” section
- Add a role and identify the collaborator by typing in their YouTube username or by adding the channel URL
- When your changes are complete, click Save changes.
Credits will appear below your video description once your video has been set to “public” or “unlisted” status and the creators that you have credited have approved your credits. We will not display credits on private videos.
Review your credits
The Credits queue located under Community > Credits in your Creator Studio allows you to review the videos in which you’ve been credited.
If you are credited, this information will appear on the video watch page and you will be notified that you’ve been credited in a video. For each credit that you receive, the queue will display:
- The person who credited you
- What role you were credited with
- Video you were credited in
- Date and time you were credited
If you choose to review all credits before they are public (you can control this preference in your Community settings), credits will appear in the Pending tab until you choose to accept or reject them.
From this page, you may choose to add the videos you’ve been credited in to a playlist once you’ve approved the credits, remove credits that have been applied to you (which will also remove them from the uploaders video), or flag a credit as spam.
