What you can post
Text
A title of 2 to 100 characters and a description of up to 5,000 bytes, neither with
< or >. Accented letters, emoji and non-Latin scripts take 2 to 4 bytes each.Media
One MP4 video per post, plus an optional JPEG or PNG thumbnail.
Post types
Video upload, set to public, unlisted or private, with up to 3 tags.
Analytics
7, 30 or 90 days: views by day, watch time, average view duration and percentage, subscribers gained and lost, and likes, plus views, likes, comments and favorites for each video, whose daily numbers are kept for 30 days as YouTube’s rules ask.
Checked before scheduling
PostQueen refuses a post that breaks these rules and shows the message in the composer:
The title is also held to 2 to 100 characters. The composer’s counter shows the description in characters while YouTube measures it in bytes, so a description in another script can be refused before the counter reaches 5,000.
Video length and the thumbnail are YouTube’s rules, and PostQueen does not check them first. YouTube takes videos up to 15 minutes on an unverified channel and up to 12 hours once the channel is verified, and custom thumbnails only on verified channels. A thumbnail problem is reported after the video is already up, for example “Your video was uploaded to YouTube successfully, but we could not set the thumbnail: custom thumbnails require a phone-verified YouTube channel. Verify your channel at youtube.com/verify, and set this video’s thumbnail manually in YouTube Studio.” The post then shows as failed although the video is live, and the email says so. Set the thumbnail in YouTube Studio instead of scheduling the post again.
Connect YouTube
The Google account you sign in with must already own a YouTube channel.1
Open Add Channel
Open Channels and choose Add Channel, then YouTube.
2
Sign in with Google
Sign in with the Google account that owns the channel, and approve every permission you are asked for. PostQueen needs all of them.
3
Pick the channel
In Select YouTube Channel, choose the channel to connect.
4
Check that it connected
The channel appears in the Channels list with its avatar and name.
Post settings
Each YouTube post in the composer has these settings. The post text is the video’s description.- Title: 2 to 100 characters. Required.
- Type: Public, Private or Unlisted. It starts on Public.
- Made for kids: No or Yes. It starts on No.
- Tags: up to 3 tags, 500 characters in total. The comma between two tags counts as 1, and a tag with a space counts 2 extra characters, because YouTube wraps it in quotes.
Comments and threads
Choose Add comment to post a comment under the video once it is up, as your channel. Each comment card becomes its own comment on the video, because YouTube replies only go one level deep. Comments are text only. YouTube turns comments off on videos made for kids, so a post with Made for kids set to Yes cannot carry comments. If comments are turned off on the video in YouTube Studio, the video is still published and the comment is reported as not posted.Good to know
- Your subscribers are always notified of a new upload.
- The upload starts at the scheduled time. A large file takes a while to go up, and an interrupted upload resumes where it stopped, so it never leaves a broken video behind.
- YouTube itself counts square or vertical videos up to 3 minutes as Shorts. There is no separate Shorts option.
- The connection renews itself.
- During the free trial, a YouTube account that another PostQueen workspace already connected is refused until you end the trial.
Troubleshooting
We couldn't find any YouTube channels connected to your account.
We couldn't find any YouTube channels connected to your account.
The Google account you signed in with has no YouTube channel. Create one in YouTube, or sign in with the account that owns it, then connect again.
Not enough scopes, when choosing a provider, please add all the scopes
Not enough scopes, when choosing a provider, please add all the scopes
A permission was switched off on Google’s screen. Connect the channel again and approve every permission.
You have reached your daily upload limit, please try again tomorrow.
You have reached your daily upload limit, please try again tomorrow.
YouTube’s daily upload limit for this channel was reached. Move the post to tomorrow.
PostQueen reached its daily YouTube upload limit, so nothing was uploaded. The limit resets at midnight Pacific time. Reschedule this post for later.
PostQueen reached its daily YouTube upload limit, so nothing was uploaded. The limit resets at midnight Pacific time. Reschedule this post for later.
The uploads a day that every PostQueen customer shares ran out before this video went up. Move the post to after midnight Pacific time.
This Google account has no YouTube channel yet. Create one on youtube.com, then reconnect.
This Google account has no YouTube channel yet. Create one on youtube.com, then reconnect.
The Google account has no YouTube channel set up yet. Create the channel on youtube.com, reconnect the channel in PostQueen, then schedule the post again.
Reconnect your YouTube channel.
Reconnect your YouTube channel.
Google no longer accepts the connection, for example after a password change or when access was removed in your Google account. Choose Reconnect channel in the channel’s menu. YouTube’s rules limit what PostQueen may keep for a channel it can no longer reach: about two weeks after the connection stopped working, PostQueen deletes the channel’s name, picture, statistics and video links. The channel and your posts stay, and reconnecting brings the name and picture back.
Next steps
Create a post
Write once for several channels, then schedule it, save a draft or post now.
All channels
What each network posts, its text limit and how to connect it.
Post from an AI agent
Ask Grok Bot, Muse, ChatGPT, Claude or another agent to schedule the post for you.
A post did not go out
Why a post fails and what to do about it.