Connect YouTube
Verified November 8, 2026· 3 min
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YouTube is a video-only channel in Rebbel: you bring a video you already made, and once you schedule it, it goes up on your channel as a public Short. Connecting takes about a minute on Google’s own screens. Nothing uploads until you say so.
Before you start
You need a Rebbel brand on the Solo plan or above and a YouTube channel on the Google account you’ll connect. YouTube is included in the plan — there’s no per-post fee. On the Free plan the YouTube section of the Connections page shows what Solo adds instead of a Connect button. One Google account can own several channels; you pick the one Rebbel should use on Google’s screen during connect.
Step 1: Connect it in Rebbel
In Rebbel open your brand → Connections → Connect YouTube. Before you leave for Google, tick the box confirming you’ll only publish videos that follow YouTube’s Community Guidelines and that you agree to YouTube’s Terms of Service. Then choose Continue to Google, sign in, pick the channel and choose Allow. You land back on the Connections page with the channel’s name showing. Start and finish in the same browser — Google sends you back to the tab you started from.
Step 2: Make a YouTube post from your own video
Rebbel doesn’t make YouTube videos for you — you upload your own. Create a post, choose Upload video, and pick your clip: an MP4 or MOV, up to 90 seconds and 500MB, shot vertical (9:16) or square, which is what YouTube treats as a Short. Then pick the YouTube chip. If the clip isn’t vertical or square, Rebbel says so under the chips and holds the post until you change the clip or unselect YouTube, rather than failing afterwards. A text or image post can’t go to YouTube.
Picking YouTube shows a Title field: what you type there becomes the video’s title, and left empty, the first line of your caption is used. The whole caption becomes its description. Rebbel adds #Shorts to the description if it isn’t there already.
Step 3: What you confirm
When you publish or schedule, the confirmation shows one line: By publishing to YouTube you confirm this video follows YouTube’s Community Guidelines. Choosing Publish or Schedule is that confirmation.
Step 4: After you publish
Every video Rebbel uploads goes up as public, so anyone can see it on YouTube once it has processed. The post page in Rebbel links straight to the Short. You can change a video’s visibility, or delete it, yourself in YouTube Studio at any point.
Step 5: Music and clip length
Shorts over 1 minute that carry claimed music can be blocked by YouTube. If your clip has licensed music, keep it under 60 seconds, or use a clip with no licensed music. Rebbel shows this note before you publish a longer clip; it is advice, not a block.
Step 6: Disconnecting
In Rebbel: Connections → Disconnect on the YouTube row. Rebbel clears the stored sign-in straight away and stops offering YouTube for new posts; videos already on your channel stay there. You can also remove Rebbel’s access from Google’s side at myaccount.google.com/permissions.
Step 7: What Rebbel can and can't do
Rebbel asks Google for permission to upload videos to the channel you picked and to read that channel’s name and picture, so the Connections page can show which one is connected. Google lists that second permission as viewing your YouTube account; Rebbel uses it only for that, once, when you connect. It uploads only the videos you schedule. It doesn’t look at your existing videos, comments, playlists or statistics, and it can’t edit or take them down.
Next
Connecting Facebook & Instagram too? See that guide. For every channel Rebbel publishes to, see integrations.