The YouTube API lets you incorporate YouTube functionality into your application or device. This page shows the icons and logos that you are allowed to use for adding YouTube-logoed branding to your application, device, or marketing materials. It also explains rules and requirements for using YouTube logos.

You do not need special approval to use the YouTube API or to promote API functionality in your application. However, any YouTube logo used within an application must link back to YouTube content or a YouTube component of that application. As examples, a logo could link to an area of the app that shows YouTube content (subscriptions, uploads, etc.), an area of the app that lets users upload videos to YouTube, or a page on the YouTube website (the home page, a channel page, etc.)

Your use of these logos is governed by the YouTube API Terms of Service, so if that use violates branding requirements in the Terms, we may request that you modify your app or usage or that you cease to use the logos. In addition, remember that these guidelines supplement the rules in the Terms of Service. Your application must comply with these branding guidelines and with the broader set of rules set forth in the Terms of Service.

Important: You may not build an application that duplicates or mimics a substantial part of the YouTube service without adding significant value. In addition, you may not represent or name your application or service as YouTube.

What logos or branding can I use?

YouTube provides two different types of logos:

The powered by YouTube logos indicate that your application is entirely dependent on curating YouTube content or on its integration with YouTube. You should use a powered by YouTube logo if removing YouTube functionality from your application would render the application as nonfunctional or not useful. For example, an app that shows videos locations on a map and provides driving directions to those locations might use the Google Maps and YouTube APIs. However, that app should still use the powered by YouTube logo since without YouTube content, the app would no longer be useful.

The YouTube logos identify a specific application feature or component that uses YouTube content, uploads content to YouTube, or integrates with YouTube in some other way. You should use a YouTube logo if your application would still be useful if you removed its YouTube functionality. Here are two examples of apps that should use YouTube logos: A game lets users capture part of their gameplay and then upload that as a YouTube video. Even if the ability to upload gameplay videos were removed, the game, which is the core application, would still remain. A travel-planning application presents airfares and hotel prices for different destinations and then lets users see restaurant reviews, tourist destinations, photos, and YouTube videos for a selected destination. Even if the YouTube videos were removed from the app, the app would still be useful based on its other features.

Downloadable logo files

The logos are shown in the following sections and can be downloaded using the provided links. Logos are transparent aside from the colors that they use. In addition, each logo is available in horizontal and stacked versions. (Stacked logos may be more suitable for display in mobile applications.)

powered by YouTube logos

The different versions of the powered by YouTube logo and links to download the logos in developer-friendly formats, are shown below:

on light backgrounds	on dark backgrounds
horizontal (.ai, .eps)	horizontal (.ai, .eps)
stacked (.ai, .eps)	stacked (.ai, .eps)

YouTube logos

The different versions of the YouTube logo and links to download the logos in developer-friendly formats, are shown below.

Note: A stacked logo should only be used in instances where the standard YouTube logo does not work because of size or format restrictions.

on light backgrounds	on dark backgrounds
standard	standard
watermark	watermark
stacked	stacked

You can download ZIP files containing versions of these images in designer-friendly formats for use in either web/mobile, television, or print applications. For each medium, images are available in Adobe Illustrator (.ai), Encapsulated PostScript (.eps), and Adobe Portable Document Format (.pdf) formats. Each ZIP file contains all versions of the YouTube logo, which you can resize and use in your application.

Medium	Download links
web, mobile	.ai .eps .pdf
television	.ai .eps .pdf
print	.ai .eps .pdf

Note: In the download files, you can disregard the text stating that the stacked images are "for sharing only."

Logo Sizing and Placement

When integrating the API into your app, you should feature the appropriate branding logo on any page where the YouTube API has a presence. The logo should appear next to the location where the API implementation appears on the page. Any logo used within an application must be clickable and needs to link back to YouTube content or a YouTube component of that application.

You may resize the logos to an appropriate size for your application, but any logo that you display must be at least 60px by 38px. In addition, you cannot modify the colors of the logos provided and should present those logos on a single, solid background color that is complimentary to the overall creative or surrounding.

Important: Do not display the logo as the most prominent element on your page.

Requirements

You may never use the YouTube logo in conjunction with the overall name or description of your application, product, or service. Similarly, you cannot use the word YouTube or any abbreviation, acronym, or variant, such as YT or You-Tube, in the name of your application, product, or service.

For example, you cannot call your application "YouTube for Kids" or "YouTube Education." However, you may make reference to the fact that your app is for YouTube or works with YouTube by stating "Great App for YouTube."

Additional rules regarding use of these logos are listed below:

• YouTube API users may only use the logos shown above. Use of these logos is governed by the YouTube API Terms of Service.
• Never display a YouTube trademark on a site or app that violates the YouTube Terms of Service.
• You can change the color of the powered by YouTube logo's color as long as the logo content is in one single color. You can also choose the background on which the logo appears.
• Ensure that there is sufficient contrast between the logo color(s) and the background color for the logo to be clearly visible.
• Do not change the logos in any way. Do not remove, obstruct, distort, or alter any element of a YouTube trademark. Similarly, you cannot modify the YouTube word mark in any way, including hyphenation, combination, abbreviation, or acronym such as: YouTubers, Tubing, Tuber, YT, You-Tube, YouTubed, etc.
• Make sure the logo is fully and clearly visible. It should never be altered or partially covered.
• Do not display the logo as the most prominent element on your web page.
• Do not use a logo in ways that (1) imply an association with or endorsement of any other product, service, event, sponsorship, or organization; (2) can be reasonably interpreted to suggest that editorial content was authored by YouTube; or (3) suggest that you are representing the views or opinions of YouTube or YouTube personnel without prior written permission from YouTube. All of the aforementioned usages must be approved via written permission.
• Do not adopt marks, logos, slogans, or designs that are confusingly similar to the YouTube trademarks or that imitate YouTube's trade dress, including the look and feel of YouTube web design properties, YouTube brand packaging, distinctive color combinations, typography, graphic designs, product icons, or imagery associated with YouTube.
• Do not register the YouTube trademarks as second-level domain names or incorporate YouTube trademarks into your own names for products, services, features or companies. Similarly, do not incorporate YouTube trademarks into your own trademarks or logos.
• Never display a YouTube trademark in a manner that is misleading, unfair, defamatory, infringing, libelous, disparaging, obscene or otherwise objectionable to YouTube.
• Never display a YouTube trademark on any web site or user interface that contains or displays adult content, promotes gambling, promotes violence, contains hate speech, involves the sale of tobacco or alcohol to persons under twenty-one years of age, violates other applicable laws or regulations or is otherwise objectionable.
• Any YouTube logo used within an application must link back to YouTube content or a YouTube component of that application.