YouTube and Instagram permissions
Amick Labs Studio is the app Amick Labs clients use to send footage, review their videos and connect their accounts. Connecting YouTube or Instagram is optional. You can always take the finished files and post them yourself. If you want Studio to publish for you, this page lists exactly what it asks for and what it does with it.
YouTube
A member of your client account connects the channel in its YouTube tab on Studio's Channels page. Google asks you to approve three permissions, and Studio connects only when all three are granted.
youtube.uploadGoogle calls it “Manage your YouTube videos”- Uploads your finished video with its title and description, and sets its thumbnail. Uploads start private.
youtube.readonlyGoogle calls it “View your YouTube account”- Reads your channel's id, name and handle, so you can see which channel is connected and Studio publishes only to that one. It also reads the privacy status of the videos Amick Labs publishes for you, so their pages show whether each is private, unlisted or public.
youtube.force-sslGoogle calls it “See, edit, and permanently delete your YouTube videos, ratings, comments and captions”- Google describes this one broadly. Studio uses it on the videos Amick Labs publishes for you, for two things only: adding or replacing their captions, and setting a new upload back to private if YouTube reports it as anything else.
Connect a Business or Creator account in the channel's Instagram tab. Studio won't connect a personal account, and you don't need a Facebook Page. It asks for two permissions and connects only with both.
instagram_business_basic- Reads your account's id, username and type, so you can see which account is connected and Studio can turn away personal accounts. After a Reel goes up, it reads the post's link.
instagram_business_content_publish- Posts your finished video as a Reel, with the caption and cover we chose.
What Studio keeps
Your channel or account's id, name or username, the permissions you granted, and the long-lived token Google or Meta issues, which Studio encrypts. When Amick Labs publishes to YouTube, its production system asks Studio for an access token that lasts an hour at most, and Studio doesn't store it. Studio posts to Instagram itself, and your Instagram token never leaves it except to go to Meta.
What it's for
Only publishing your finished videos, thumbnails, titles, descriptions, chapters and captions to your own accounts. Amick Labs doesn't sell this data, use it for ads, or use it to train AI models.
Disconnecting
Disconnect any time from the channel's tab. Studio deletes the stored token, and for YouTube it asks Google to revoke it. You can also remove access yourself at myaccount.google.com/permissions or instagram.com/accounts/manage_access.
The privacy policy covers this in full, for YouTube and for Instagram: what Studio keeps, for how long, and how to have it deleted.