Panoptic
Sign inWhat is Panoptic?
Run a network of YouTube channels in one place: production, the team and their pay, money, sponsorships and YouTube's figures.
New to Panoptic? Sign in with your email address to sign up, then subscribe and create your company. Everyone else joins by invitation.
What Panoptic does
- Production
- Templates, and videos with their steps, deadlines worked out from the publish date, reviews and revisions; the idea bank, files, the pipeline and calendar, and each person's own work.
- The team
- Roles and permissions, kinds of work and capacity, team performance, and pay: rates, approvals, late deductions and payouts, tracked in Panoptic and paid by the company itself.
- Money
- Costs and other revenue, sponsor deals with their deliverables and campaign views, and each video's profit and loss and break-even day.
- Figures
- Each channel's and each video's daily figures from YouTube, dashboards for the network and each channel, analysis by format, topic, length and person, and alerts for the owners.
- Messages
- The company's own Discord, Slack or Telegram hears about new work, deadlines, reviews and published videos.
Who it's for
- The owner of a network of YouTube channels signs up with their email address and subscribes to Panoptic's plan on Stripe's own pages, where sales tax or VAT is added where it applies. One subscription covers every company they own.
- Everyone else joins by invitation: business partners, channel managers, contributors (writers, editors, thumbnail designers, researchers) and contacts at sponsoring brands, who see only their own campaigns. There are no passwords: everyone signs in with a code sent to their email address.
- Each company is kept apart from every other, and what each person sees depends on their role, the channels they manage and the work they're given.
Panoptic and YouTube
A channel's owner connects it on Google's own consent page, choosing what Panoptic may read: the channel and its videos, their analytics and, only if they allow it, the channel's revenue. Panoptic only ever reads: it never uploads, changes or deletes anything on YouTube.
It reads the channel's name, picture and subscriber count; its uploads' titles, lengths and privacy; each day's views, watch time and subscribers for the channel and each video, and each video's impressions and click-through rate; and YouTube's estimated revenue, where the owner allowed it.
It uses them for the company that connected the channel: to link each video in production to its upload, to mark it published when YouTube does, and for the company's dashboards, money and alerts, shown to the people its roles allow. Nobody in another company sees them.
The access Google gives is kept encrypted, readable only by Panoptic's server. Disconnecting a channel ends it at Google and deletes it; the owner then chooses whether the channel's figures stay or go.
The privacy policy says what Panoptic keeps, about whom and why, and the terms of service how it's offered.