YouTube + Kipwise Agent
Ask about your team’s YouTube channel and upload, schedule and manage videos from Slack or Microsoft Teams. Every change waits for your approval.
YouTube in Slack: ask, approve, upload
The card shows every detail before anything goes up
Attach the video in the thread and say what it should be called and when it goes live. The Upload card lists the channel, title, visibility, schedule and whether it is made for kids, with YouTube’s own upload notice. Nothing is uploaded until the person who asked presses Upload.
@Kipwise Upload the clip above to our YouTube channel. Title “Desk bell”, schedule it for Friday at 9:00.
Ready when you are.
Upload “desk-bell.mp4” to the YouTube channel Sample Studio, scheduled for Friday at 9:00?
- Channel
- Sample Studio
- Title
- Desk bell
- Visibility
- Private, then public Fri 9:00
- Made for kids
- No
Upload “desk-bell.mp4” to the YouTube channel Sample Studio, scheduled for Friday at 9:00?
✓ Uploaded by Tobias LindUploaded. It stays private until Friday at 9:00.
- Visibility
- Private
- Goes public
- Friday 9:00
- Processing
- YouTube is still processing it
Sample data
Ask in Slack, work with your YouTube channel
Connect one YouTube channel to a Slack or Microsoft Teams channel, and everyone in that channel can ask about it and ask the agent to act, in plain words.
- List the channel’s latest videos with their views, likes and comments, find videos by words in their title or description, or read any one video and its comments.
- List comments across the channel, including the ones waiting for review.
- Get YouTube Analytics for the channel or for one video over a date range. The agent states the dates it used.
- Upload a video attached in the thread, including a clip the agent made with Higgsfield, with a title, description, tags, visibility (private, unlisted or public), an optional scheduled time and the video settings below.
- Change a video’s title, description, tags, visibility, schedule or thumbnail, or delete a video.
- Change a video’s settings: its license, whether other sites may embed it, whether viewers see its view count and likes, its category, languages, recording date and paid promotion notice.
- Add a video’s title and description in other languages, so viewers see them in their own language.
- Add subtitles from an .srt, .vtt or .sbv file attached in the thread, and download, replace or delete a video’s subtitles.
- Make playlists, and add, remove or reorder their videos.
- Change the channel’s description, keywords, country, language and the trailer that people who have not subscribed see.
- Reply to comments, post or edit a comment as the channel, and approve, hold, hide or hide-and-ban comments.
Ask in your own words
- “What are our five latest videos, and how are they doing?”
- “Which comments are waiting for review?”
- “Show our channel analytics for the last 28 days.”
- “Upload this video as private and schedule it for Friday at 9:00.”
- “Change the title of our latest video to ‘Spring release notes’.”
- “Reply to the top comment: ‘Thanks for watching!’”
- “Add these English subtitles to our latest video.”
- “Add a Japanese title and description to the spring video.”
- “Make a playlist of our launch videos.”
Nothing changes without an approval
Every change shows a card first with the channel and the exact details, and the old value next to the new one when it replaces something. An upload shows the title, description, tags, visibility, schedule and whether it is made for kids, plus YouTube’s own upload notice, and its button reads Upload. Deleting a video is permanent and is confirmed by its title. Only the person who asked can press the button.
Set up in 3 steps
- Mention @Kipwise in Slack and ask about your YouTube channel.
- Press Connect. Only the channel’s owner, or a manager of its Brand Account, can connect it.
- Approve on Google’s screen and pick the channel there. Everyone in that chat channel can then use it.
FAQs
Access, approvals and numbers for the YouTube connection.
Who can connect a YouTube channel?
Only the channel’s owner, or a manager of its Brand Account. Ask the agent about YouTube, press Connect and approve on Google’s screen, where you pick the channel. One YouTube channel is connected per Slack or Microsoft Teams channel.
What do the other people in the channel see?
Everyone in that Slack or Teams channel can ask the agent about the YouTube channel and ask it to act, and sees the answers there. That includes private and unlisted videos, comments waiting for review and YouTube Analytics. Connect it only to a chat channel whose members you want to have that.
Can people outside our team use it?
No. Guests, such as people from other companies in a shared channel, cannot use the YouTube connection at all. They can still read the replies the agent posts in that channel, so connect YouTube only where everyone may see its data.
Does it post or change anything without asking?
No. Every change waits for an Approve card (Upload, for an upload), and only the person who asked can press it. That covers uploads, edits, video settings, translations, subtitles, playlists, channel details, deletes, comments and comment moderation. Reading videos, comments, subtitles, playlists and analytics needs no approval.
Does it make Shorts?
It does not choose that. YouTube makes a vertical video up to 3 minutes long a Short by its own rules.
Can it set a custom thumbnail?
Yes, when the channel is a verified YouTube channel. YouTube refuses custom thumbnails on channels that are not verified.
Can it add subtitles and translated titles?
Yes. Attach an .srt, .vtt or .sbv file in the thread and ask the agent to add it to a video as subtitles. It can also add a video’s title and description in other languages once the video’s own language is set, and it can set that language for you.
Are the analytics up to date?
The agent states the date range it used. YouTube can take 2 to 3 days to finish counting, so the last few days may be incomplete.
How do I disconnect?
Ask the agent: “disconnect our YouTube channel”. It revokes the access at Google and deletes the stored token at once. If the same YouTube channel is also connected in another chat channel, only this connection is removed. You can also remove it at myaccount.google.com/permissions.
More marketing tools in Slack
- TikTok: post videos and photos, and see how they perform.
- Higgsfield: short video clips from a description, made with your own credits.
- Google Ads: campaign numbers and search terms.
Embedding YouTube videos in Kipwise pages? See the YouTube embed.
Support
Questions or problems: support@kipwise.com or the Kipwise help center. See also our privacy policy and terms of service.
The Kipwise Agent uses YouTube API Services. By connecting a YouTube channel you agree to the YouTube Terms of Service, and Google’s Privacy Policy applies. How we handle YouTube data: privacy policy, YouTube. YouTube is a trademark of Google LLC.