PublishQ
PublishQ
YouTube

Schedule YouTube posts without opening YouTube

Upload and schedule YouTube videos and Shorts. Set privacy, category, tags, description, playlist, COPPA, and AI disclosure — all from one dashboard.

A YouTube scheduler lets you upload, queue, and auto-publish videos and Shorts at specific times without being online. PublishQ is a YouTube scheduler that supports full metadata control — privacy, tags, categories, playlists, COPPA, and AI disclosure — and can cross-post the same video to TikTok, Instagram, and other platforms simultaneously.

Supported content: Videos, Shorts

Last updated: July 2026

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How it works

1

Connect your YouTube channel

Link your YouTube account with one click via Google OAuth. PublishQ gets permission to upload on your behalf.

2

Create your video post

Upload your video, write a title and description, add tags, set the category, and configure privacy, COPPA, and AI disclosure settings.

3

Schedule or publish

Pick a date and time, or publish immediately. PublishQ uploads the video and applies all your settings automatically.

What you can do with YouTube on PublishQ

YouTube Shorts support

Vertical videos under 3 minutes are auto-detected as Shorts. No special configuration needed.

Full metadata control

Set title, description, tags, category, privacy status, COPPA compliance, and AI-generated content disclosure.

Cross-platform publishing

Upload a YouTube video and post to TikTok, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Threads, and Bluesky at the same time.

Post overrides

Customize the title and description for YouTube while posting different text to other platforms.

API access

Schedule YouTube uploads programmatically via the PublishQ REST API.

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Alexandro - Founder
PublishQ

— me 👋

Hi, I'm Alexandro 👋

I left my Software Engineer role at Amazon to build tools that solve real problems — the kind big companies ignore because they read spreadsheets instead of using their own products.

I was spending over an hour daily just scheduling 2 shorts across 3 platforms — logging in, reformatting, uploading one by one. That felt broken. So I built PublishQPublishQ . Now I create 4 shorts in 3 minutes and schedule them to 4 platforms in under 30 seconds.

PublishQ is bootstrapped. No investors, no vanity metrics. I build what actually helps you — because I use it every day myself.

Thank you,

Alexandro

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Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about scheduling YouTube posts with PublishQ

Yes. Shorts are auto-detected when your video is vertical (9:16) and under 3 minutes. No special flag needed — just upload and schedule.
MP4, MOV, AVI, WMV, FLV, 3GPP, and WebM. YouTube accepts videos up to 256 GB.
Yes. You can set videos to public, unlisted, or private directly from PublishQ.
YouTube titles have a 100-character limit. Descriptions support up to 5,000 characters. Tags have a combined limit of 500 characters total (tags with spaces count as quoted, adding 2 extra characters). Neither titles nor descriptions can contain < or > characters.
Yes. Write a description up to 5,000 characters. If your post text exceeds the 100-character title limit, PublishQ automatically uses it as the description.
Yes. You can set the YouTube category, add tags, and write a full description — all from PublishQ.
Yes. Add multiple tags to your YouTube video directly from PublishQ. Tags help YouTube understand your content and surface it in search results.
Yes. You can set the Made for Kids (COPPA) flag and the AI-generated content disclosure when scheduling any YouTube upload.
Yes. You can schedule a YouTube video alongside posts to TikTok, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Threads, and Bluesky — all in one action.
Yes. Use post overrides to set a different title for YouTube while posting different text to other platforms.
Yes. PublishQ has a REST API that lets you schedule YouTube uploads programmatically. Create posts, attach media, and set all YouTube-specific settings from your own code.
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