YouTube channel membership perks

Channels enabled for memberships tin create members-only perks. These perks are simply bachelor to your active paid members. These include custom emoji, badges, and admission to perks you lot offering.

All perks you offering must comply with our channel membership policies.

Channel Memberships

Channel membership levels

You lot can offer multiple membership levels which all accept different prices. Proceed in heed that if you accept multiple levels, their perks build on each other. This means the highest-priced levels take access to perks offered at lower-priced levels.

See full pricing details for levels in available countries.

Add a level

Y'all can add together up to 5 levels at different prices. Each level must take between one and 5 perks.

Add membership levels

  1. Go to studio.youtube.com using your channel with memberships.
  2. In the left carte du jour, select Monetization.
  3. On the principal dashboard, click Memberships.
  4. Click Edit in the box that says "Pace 1: Add levels and perks".
  5. Follow the onscreen instructions. Once complete, click Publish.

Your levels and perks will demand to be reviewed earlier going live. This process takes about a solar day.

How levels work with badges and emoji

Loyalty badges and custom emoji are unaffected by levels. All members receive the same badge based on loyalty and members of all levels accept the same access to all emoji.

Remove a level

If you remove a level, you'll delete all members at that level. All members at a removed level will lose admission to perks immediately, and will be refunded their last month'southward payment.

Remove a level

  1. Get to studio.youtube.com using your aqueduct with memberships.
  2. In the left menu, select Monetization.
  3. On the main dashboard, click Memberships.
  4. Click Edit in the box that says "Step i: Add together levels and perks".
  5. Click on the level you want to remove and then click the delete icon.
  6. Follow the rest of the onscreen instructions. One time complete, click Publish.

Channel membership perks

You must create and publish at to the lowest degree one perk (and up to five perks) that you will offering to your members. Your perks must comply with our policies and terms, and y'all must deliver all creator perks that y'all offer. YouTube takes no responsibility for your creator perks and yous must advisedly consider whether you volition be able to deliver what you offer to your members' satisfaction.

Members-only Community posts

Yous can use the customs tab to share content only with your members. If you have levels on your channel, you can also share Community posts with members at specific levels.

Follow these steps to brand members-only Community posts:

  1. Click your profile picture and select Your channel.
  2. Click the Community tab.
  3. In the dropdown menu, choose whether to make the mail service public or members-only. Public is the default setting.
  4. Enter your post in the text field.
  5. Click Post.

Members-only video

Yous tin set a video that can only be seen by your agile members. Anyone can detect a members-simply video, but only members at the right level(s) can watch it. This feature can only be prepare on a desktop, and may be different depending on whether it'southward a new upload or an existing video.

Members-just videos must be fully original content. You should not offer videos that take copyright claims, including those from music partners.

Set a new upload as members-only

  1. Upload a video.
  2. Select Members only.
    • If you have more than one level, select the level(southward) that you lot wish this to be viewable past.
  3. Cull your sharing option:
    • Post to members: Your video will be shared with members on your Customs tab. Yous can customize your Community tab message at this stage. Once you lot've completed this step, your members volition get a notification.
    • Not at present: When yous select this, notifications won't be sent to your members which won't be posted to the Community tab. Anyone can withal observe the members-only video, but simply members at the correct level(southward) can lookout man it.
  4. Complete the rest of the upload process.

Fix an existing video as members-just

  1. Get to studio.youtube.com.
  2. In the left-hand bill of fare, select Videos.
  3. Find the video that you only want to share with your members and then Click the "Visibility" columnand then Select Members onlyand then Click Save.
    • If you lot have more than one level, select the level(s) that you want your video to be visible to.
  4. Choose your sharing pick:
    • Postal service to members: Your video will be shared with members on your Community tab. You tin can customize your Community tab message at this stage. Once you've completed this step, your members will become a notification.
    • Not now: When you lot select this, notifications won't exist sent to your members which won't be posted to the Community tab. Anyone tin can nonetheless find the members-but video, but simply members at the right level(s) tin watch it.

Promote your members-just video

To let your viewers know that a video is available, you can share the URL publicly on:

  • Cards
  • Public customs
  • Playlists

Your members can immediately watch the members-just video at their right level(south). Non-members will see a annotation that says that information technology's only available to members, and volition be shown ways to get a member.

Members-but live streams (beta)

To share live streams exclusively with your members:

  1. Sign into your Google account.
  2. Go to Creator Studio.
  3. Click on the photographic camera.
  4. Select "Become alive."
  5. To allow all members to view the live stream, select "All paid members" in the visibility settings.
    • Or, select the level (and higher) that should exist allowed to view.
  6. To create a members-but Community post linking to the live stream, follow the prompts. Members will not be notified on YouTube unless you create a Community post. Even so, they will be able to view the live stream if they have access to the link.

Your members will be notified when yous post a link to the live stream with a members-only post in Customs.

Delight notation: During the beta, your channel moderators volition non be able to view members-but live streams or moderate live chat on members-only live streams unless they are members.

Members-simply live chat

Member Milestone Chats

Channel members can send one special highlighted message per calendar month in live chat to recognize and celebrate how long they've been a fellow member. This characteristic is bachelor to members who are in, at least, their 2nd sequent month as a fellow member. Messages tin can just be sent during live streams or Premieres, and are visible to all viewers.

(To plow off this characteristic, go to Studio and then Monetization and thenMemberships and set 'Membership Milestone Chat' to 'Off'.)

Note: Since all eligible members can apply Member Milestone Chats, you may detect high usage the start few times you live stream after this feature is enabled. The charge per unit should smooth out over time as each member can redeem a Fellow member Milestone Chat once per calendar month.

Custom channel badges

Members will stand out in alive chat, comments, and the Community tab via exclusive members-only badges.

Custom channel badges overview

There are six different badges, and each one highlights how long a viewer has been a member of your item aqueduct. The badge times count how long each member has cumulatively paid for a membership. For case, if an active member joined your channel a year agone, but merely paid for a total of 9 months out of the past 12 months, their bluecoat will show that they have been a member for 9 months.

Here are the durations associated with each of the 6 badges:

  • New
  • 1 month
  • two months
  • half dozen months
  • 1 twelvemonth
  • ii years

Upload custom channel badges

In that location are default badges, but you should upload and customize your badges on the Memberships pageand then Loyalty Badges.

If you don't upload a unlike badge into each available slot, any empty slots will be filled by the highest custom badge that you have uploaded, or the default YouTube badge for that duration (if y'all accept only uploaded custom badges at college durations).

Custom channel badges specifications

File format: JPEG, or PNG files.
File size: Less than 1MB.
Prototype dimensions: Minimum 32px x 32px.

Badges will return at 14px 10 14px in comments and the Community tab and 16px x 16px in live chat.

Custom emoji

Upload custom emoji

Members will proceeds access to one or more than exclusive custom emoji that tin can be sent via YouTube in video comments. Information technology tin also be sent in any of your alive chats. By default, there are no custom emoji.

To upload custom emoji, get to the Memberships page and select Edit on "Your badges and emoji" carte du jour.

Family Name

When you upload your outset emoji, you'll create a prefix proper noun for all of your emoji, called a 'family name'. Members volition utilize this name to auto-complete your emoji. You can also autocomplete your channel'south emojis with :_ .

Family names aren't unique beyond YouTube and must exist 3–10 characters.

Every bit a best practise, nosotros recommend picking a family name that is easily recognizable equally your brand.

Emoji Name

Each emoji will accept a proper noun that members can utilise to autocomplete in live chat. To change the emoji name, yous must delete and re-upload the emoji. Emoji names must be 3–x alpha numerical characters and unique within their emoji family (but not across YouTube).

Number of custom emoji y'all can upload

Equally y'all gain more members, you will unlock additional slots for more custom emoji. Y'all will not be notified when new slots are unlocked.

# Members # Emojis
0 4
2 5
5 6
10 vii
fifteen eight
20 9
30 x
40 eleven
50 12
75 13
100 xiv
125 15
150 16
175 17
200 18
225 nineteen
250 20
300 21
350 22
400 23
450 24
500 25
600 26
700 27
800 28
900 29
1000 xxx
1200 31
1400 32
1600 33
1800 34
2000 35
2200 36
2400 37
2600 38
2800 39
3000 40
3200 41
3400 42
3600 43
3800 44
4000 45
4200 46
4400 47
4600 48
4800 49
5000 54

Custom emoji specifications

File format: GIF, JPEG, and PNG files are preferred. Annotation: GIFs volition be displayed as a static image, not an animation.

File size: Less than 1MB.

Image dimensions: 48px x 48px (preferred) to 480px x 480px.

Device differences

Emoji will show upwardly in different sizes on mobile devices and on reckoner monitors. Here's how to make sure your emoji look expert on both platforms:

On mobile devices: Emoji prove at 24x24 points. The image is scaled to match the pixel density of the device.

On virtually monitors: Emoji evidence at 24x24 points. On Retina and HiDPI devices, the images show at 48x48 points or higher.

What can I blueprint?

Emoji are a manner for your to limited your creativity. Learn more about designing emoji.

Proceed in mind that all members-only perks — including badges, emoji, perks yous offer, videos, live chats, and other content — offered through YouTube memberships are too subject to membership policies.

If you lot've got actress footage, you can offer it as a memberships perk. It'southward a quick fashion to advantage your members.

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