Working with an editor, without handing over your channel
Four questions creators ask when they hire their first editor — answered properly, including the parts where the honest answer is “that is not possible, and here is why.”
Your editor deleted your videos
What to do in the first hour, what you can realistically get back, and the permission gap that made it possible.
Let your editor upload, but not publish
The setting everyone looks for does not exist — not even in YouTube's API. The four arrangements people use instead, and what each costs.
Is giving an editor access safe?
What the access actually reaches, which damage undoes and which does not, and the failure mode that has nothing to do with trust.
Hiring an editor without giving channel access
How the handoff works with no credentials, what to agree up front, and how to run a first trial project.
Manager access: what it can do that an Editor cannot
The role most people grant by accident, and the only collaborator role that can delete published videos.
What each YouTube role can actually do
All seven roles against the nine things people worry about, transcribed from Google's own table — including the difference between Manager and Editor that most articles state backwards.
Or skip to the thing they all point at
Editors draft titles, thumbnails and cuts with no channel access at all. You review every change as a diff against what is live, and only your click reaches YouTube.
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