Paste or type your YouTube post to see how many characters you have used out of 5,000, and how many are left.
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The count is by code points, the same as fanout uses before publishing. YouTube's own counter may differ slightly. Details are in the character limits guide.
YouTube posts are video uploads with their own title, description and thumbnail, and fanout keeps those fields separate from the short caption you write for other networks. Upload a video or Short, set the title and description, and schedule the publish time; fanout uploads it through YouTube's API so it goes live without you touching the dashboard. Comments show up in the inbox and analytics track views and engagement, included on every plan.
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fanout enforces 5,000 characters per YouTube post, counted as Unicode code points. A post can carry up to 4 images, and it needs a video to publish.
Yes. A simple emoji is one code point, so it counts as one here. Emoji built from several parts (skin tones, flags, family emoji) are several code points and count as several. YouTube may weight characters differently, so leave a little room if you are close to the cap.
fanout flags the post as too long for YouTube before it publishes, so nothing is cut off silently. Shorten it, or write a shorter version for YouTube and keep the long one for the other networks.
It is the count fanout uses when it checks a post, based on YouTube's documented limit as of 2026-10-25. Networks change limits and count some characters differently, so treat a post within a few characters of the cap as unconfirmed until YouTube accepts it.