Relight
A production workspace for YouTube creators and their teams.
Relight keeps a channel’s work in one place: briefs, edit and thumbnail jobs, review, the posting schedule and channel analytics. A creator invites their editors, designers and producers, and everyone sees what is due and what is live.
The app is invite-only: you have an account if a creator or their team invited you.
Google connections
Relight asks Google for access in two separate places. Google shows both sign-in screens under the app name Relight. Each is optional and each asks for its own permissions.
YouTube channel
A channel owner connects their channel. It reads the following, and only for that channel:
- The channel name and avatar.
- The channel’s videos: titles, publish dates, privacy or scheduled status, and view counts.
- YouTube Analytics reports, including revenue. Revenue is shown only to the people the workspace owner allows to see it.
Why
- To match each video to its production record.
- To show the creator and their team each video’s real posting date and how it performed.
What the YouTube channel connection cannot do
The YouTube connection cannot upload, edit or delete anything on your channel. It never asks Google for permission to. Posting is a different, optional connection, described next. The full detail is in the Privacy Policy.
YouTube posting (optional)
A channel owner can also turn on posting for a channel. This is a separate choice from the YouTube channel connection above: it is made for each channel, it has its own Google screen, and it changes nothing for a channel that never turns it on.
What it asks for
- Upload your YouTube videos — to send a finished video and its thumbnail to your channel.
- Manage your YouTube videos — to set the publish time and who can see a video after it is uploaded, to add it to playlists and to add captions.
What it does
- It uploads only videos that a person on your team approved.
- Every upload starts Private. It never makes a video public unless a person chose Public, or a publish time, for that video.
- It never deletes a video.
How to turn it off
In Relight, open Connected accounts, find the channel under YouTube posting, and choose Turn off posting. We delete our posting sign-in straight away. To remove Relight from your Google account as well, open your Google account permissions and remove Relight there. Google ends all of the app’s access at once, so this also stops the stats connection.
Google Drive and Google Docs
A workspace owner or admin can connect a Google account in Settings, under Workspace, then Integrations and modules. This is not about YouTube, and a channel owner does not need it.
What it does
- Makes a Drive folder for each client and each video, inside the parent folder the workspace chose.
- Copies the workspace’s brief template Doc, and the files of its video folder template, into those folders.
- Fills in the new brief Doc with the video’s details, such as its name and ID.
- Lists a folder’s contents so it does not make the same thing twice.
- Moves to the bin a folder or Doc it has just made if it could not link it to its video.
What Google is asked for
Full access to Google Drive and to Google Docs for the connected account. Google needs the full Drive permission here because the parent folder and the templates are files the workspace made, not files Relight made. Relight only acts on the folders and templates the workspace points it at and on what it creates there, and it does not use this access for anything else.
A client workspace (any workspace other than Relight’s own) that connects Google Drive is asked for less: Google’s drive.file permission, which reaches only the folders and files Relight makes in that Drive. Relight makes the videos folder there itself and cannot open any other file in that Drive. A client workspace connected before this keeps its full access until it reconnects.
Disconnect
- A YouTube channel: in Relight, open Settings, then Your channels, and choose Disconnect next to the channel. Relight revokes its access at Google and deletes the analytics and revenue it read.
- Google Drive and Docs: in Relight, open Settings, then Workspace, then Integrations and modules, and choose Disconnect.
- Either one, any time: in your Google Account, open Security, then Third-party connections, and remove Relight: myaccount.google.com/connections.