--- title: "YouTube Community Posts: What They Are, Who Can Use Them, and How They Reach Subscribers" description: "What a YouTube Community post is, the eligibility requirement, the post types available, how they reach subscribers, and how to publish one from YouTube Studio or the mobile app." canonical_url: "https://bolta.ai/guides/youtube/community-posts" markdown_url: "https://bolta.ai/guides/youtube/community-posts.md" last_updated: "2026-07-28" content_type: "platform" publisher: "Bolta" --- # YouTube Community Posts: What They Are, Who Can Use Them, and How They Reach Subscribers Source: https://bolta.ai/guides/youtube/community-posts Last updated: 2026-07-28 What a YouTube Community post is, the eligibility requirement, the post types available, how they reach subscribers, and how to publish one from YouTube Studio or the mobile app. ## Summary Community posts are non-video posts that appear on a channel's Community tab and can surface in subscribers' feeds. Community posts can be text, images, polls, quizzes and shared videos or playlists, and posting is open to any channel with standard feature access — there is no subscriber threshold. ## How to publish a YouTube Community post 1. Open the Community tab in Studio: Go to studio.youtube.com and choose Community in the left-hand menu, or tap the create button in the YouTube mobile app and choose the post option. 2. Pick a post type: Community posts can be text, images, polls, quizzes and shared videos or playlists. Choose the one that asks something of the reader — a poll gets a response from people who would never leave a comment. 3. Write the post and attach media: Keep it to a couple of sentences. a long Community post is truncated in the feed behind a Read more link (unverified), so the first line has to carry the whole idea. 4. Publish or schedule: a Community post can be scheduled from the composer instead of published immediately, so you can place a teaser ahead of a video going live rather than remembering to post on the day. 5. Check how it did: Community post performance is reported separately from video performance inside YouTube Studio analytics, so look there rather than judging a post by the comment count alone. ## What Community posts are Community posts are non-video posts that appear on a channel's Community tab and can surface in subscribers' feeds. They are YouTube's answer to the fact that a channel goes quiet between uploads while its audience does not. The useful way to think about them: a video is a production, a Community post is a message. The bar is far lower, which is exactly the point — a post costs a minute and keeps a channel present in a feed it would otherwise vanish from for a fortnight. ## Who can post posting is open to any channel with standard feature access — there is no subscriber threshold. This is the detail most articles get wrong, because the requirement has been lowered more than once and every lowering left a wave of guidance behind it quoting the old number. If the tab is not showing on your channel, check the current requirement in YouTube's own help rather than trusting a figure from an article — including this one, which is why the number is not printed here as though it were settled. ## The post types Community posts can be text, images, polls, quizzes and shared videos or playlists. Each one does a different job, and channels that get value out of the tab tend to use the interactive types far more than plain text. - Polls — the highest-response format, because voting takes one tap and no self-exposure. - Images — behind-the-scenes stills, thumbnail options, a frame from tomorrow's upload. - Text — announcements, a delay, a question worth asking outright. - Quizzes — a poll with a right answer, which gives you a reason to reveal something. - Shared videos or playlists — resurfacing an older upload to an audience that never saw it. | Goal | Format that fits | |-|-| | Decide between two thumbnails | Poll with both images | | Warm up an upload landing tomorrow | Image or text teaser | | Give an older video a second life | Shared video post | | Explain a gap in the schedule | Short text post | | Find out what to make next | Poll or open question | ## How they actually reach people This is where expectations need calibrating. a Community post is not delivered to every subscriber — it is a ranked candidate for the home and subscriptions feeds. A post is not an email to your subscriber list; it competes for a slot like everything else. That has a practical consequence. A post that gets early votes, likes or comments is shown to more people, and a post that gets nothing dies quietly within an hour. Asking something is not a stylistic preference here — it is the mechanism. Community post performance is reported separately from video performance inside YouTube Studio analytics, and the numbers there are worth a look, because the posts that perform are rarely the ones creators expect. ## A rhythm that works Two or three posts a week is enough to keep a channel present without becoming noise in a feed people came to for video. The pattern that holds up is one post before an upload, one after it, and one unrelated to either — a question, a poll, something with no ask attached. Channels that post only when they want something get read as a channel that only posts when it wants something, and the response rate falls accordingly. ## Verification Last verified: 2026-07-28. Platform behaviour changes frequently; claims that had not been re-checked on that date are marked unverified on the HTML page. ## What is a YouTube Community post? Community posts are non-video posts that appear on a channel's Community tab and can surface in subscribers' feeds. It lets a channel say something between uploads without making a video. ## Who is eligible for the Community tab? posting is open to any channel with standard feature access — there is no subscriber threshold. The requirement has been lowered several times, so check YouTube's current help page rather than an older article. ## What types of Community post can I make? Community posts can be text, images, polls, quizzes and shared videos or playlists. Polls tend to get the strongest response because voting takes one tap. ## Do all my subscribers see a Community post? No. a Community post is not delivered to every subscriber — it is a ranked candidate for the home and subscriptions feeds, so early engagement decides how far it travels. ## Where do I see how a Community post performed? Community post performance is reported separately from video performance inside YouTube Studio analytics. Judge a post on impressions and votes rather than on comments alone. ## Can I schedule Community posts? Yes. a Community post can be scheduled from the composer instead of published immediately — the sensible use is a teaser the day before an upload goes live. ## Can I edit or delete a Community post? Yes. a published Community post can be edited or deleted from the three-dot menu on the post. Editing a poll after votes have been cast is the one case worth avoiding, since it invalidates the results people already gave you. ## Relevant links - [YouTube guides](https://bolta.ai/guides/youtube) - [All platform guides](https://bolta.ai/guides) - [shorts length](https://bolta.ai/guides/youtube/shorts-length) - [analytics explained](https://bolta.ai/guides/tiktok/analytics-explained) - [facebook seo](https://bolta.ai/guides/facebook/facebook-seo)