# Connect YouTube to LinkedIn

> Connect your YouTube channel as the source and your LinkedIn profile as a destination in Post Once. From then on, the Shorts and longer videos you upload to YouTube go to LinkedIn on their own, with your caption.

Post Once help center, Connect two apps. Source: https://postonce.com/help/connect-youtube-to-linkedin.

## Before you start

- A YouTube channel. Any channel you can sign in to works, monetized or not.
- A LinkedIn account. Post Once posts to your personal profile, not a company Page.
- A Post Once account. The free plan includes 10 reposts, with no card needed.

## How to connect YouTube to LinkedIn

1. Create a free account at [app.postonce.com](https://app.postonce.com/signup). After two short intro screens, Post Once asks where you post.
2. Under **Where do you post first?**, pick **YouTube** and press **Continue**.

   (Screenshot: YouTube picked under Where do you post first? in Post Once)

3. Under **Where else should it land?**, pick **LinkedIn**. Add any other apps, or a backup, then press **Continue**.
4. On **Connect your accounts.**, press **Connect** on the YouTube row. Sign in with the Google account that owns your channel and allow access.

   (Screenshot: The Connect your accounts screen with YouTube as the source and LinkedIn as a destination)

5. Press **Connect** on the LinkedIn row. Sign in with LinkedIn and allow access.
6. When both rows say **Connected**, press **Go to dashboard**.

From then on, keep posting on YouTube as usual. Post Once checks it about every five minutes and reposts each new post to LinkedIn.

## Already using Post Once?

If YouTube is already the source of your bridge, open **Bridge** and press **Connect** next to LinkedIn in the **Destinations** card, or press **Add destination** on the dashboard.

If your bridge reads from another account, add a second bridge with YouTube as its source from the bridge switcher. Free and Solo include 1 bridge, Studio 3 and Agency as many as you need. See [bridges](https://postonce.com/help/bridges).

## What each YouTube post becomes on LinkedIn

| On YouTube | On LinkedIn |
|---|---|
| A Short | A video post. |
| A video over 3 minutes, or a landscape one | A video post, up to 30 minutes and 500 MB. Longer videos skip LinkedIn. |

A skipped post shows the reason on your dashboard and still goes to your other destinations. See [long videos](https://postonce.com/help/long-videos) for how Post Once tells short from long.

## How your caption carries over

The video's description becomes the caption. A video with no description uses its title instead. Private and unlisted videos are not picked up, and neither are community posts.

LinkedIn takes captions up to 3,000 characters, and hashtags in them become LinkedIn hashtags. Posts are public, on your personal profile.

## Choose what goes to LinkedIn

On the **Bridge** page, the LinkedIn row has two settings.

- **What to post** has one switch here, **Videos**, since videos are all that go from YouTube to LinkedIn. Turning it off pauses LinkedIn.
- **Rewrite caption** changes the caption for LinkedIn only: **Remove comment, DM and link in bio prompts**, **Remove hashtags and mentions**, **Rewrite with AI to suit LinkedIn**, and **Add your own text** at the start or end. Each one is off until you turn it on.

## Check that it works

Post something on YouTube as usual. Within about five minutes it shows up under **Your posts** on the dashboard (press **Check now** to look straight away), then goes to LinkedIn. Each post shows where it went, what was skipped and why.

If a repost fails, Post Once tries again up to 5 times over about half an hour. If it still fails, you get an email, and **Retry** sends it again to just the accounts it missed. See [a post did not repost](https://postonce.com/help/post-not-reposted).

Only posts published after you connect are reposted on their own. Older ones are listed in [Your posts](https://postonce.com/help/your-posts), where you can send any of them by hand.

## Frequently asked questions

### Is it free to repost YouTube to LinkedIn?

Every account gets 10 free reposts, with no card and no watermark. One repost is one post sent to all your destinations, so it counts once however many apps it goes to. After that, paid plans start at $9 a month. See [pricing](https://postonce.com/pricing).

### How fast do YouTube posts reach LinkedIn?

Post Once checks YouTube about every five minutes, then reposts straight away. Long videos take a few more minutes to fetch and upload.

### What are the limits of reposting from YouTube to LinkedIn?

Post Once sends at most 25 posts per LinkedIn profile per day. LinkedIn access also ends after 60 days: Post Once emails you 5 days before, and you reconnect with one sign-in. Videos can run up to 30 minutes.

### Why was my 4K video reposted at 1080p?

Post Once takes the best version that every destination accepts, and that tops out at 1080p. A 4K upload is reposted at 1080p.

### Why do I have to reconnect LinkedIn?

LinkedIn gives apps access for 60 days and does not let them renew it. Post Once emails you 5 days before it runs out, and the LinkedIn row shows a Reconnect link. Reconnecting takes one sign-in. See [reconnect an account](https://postonce.com/help/reconnect-an-account).