diff --git a/app/Support/Analytics/AnalyticsRateLimits.php b/app/Support/Analytics/AnalyticsRateLimits.php
index 7b73a376c..83d70754c 100644
--- a/app/Support/Analytics/AnalyticsRateLimits.php
+++ b/app/Support/Analytics/AnalyticsRateLimits.php
@@ -19,9 +19,10 @@
  * documented ceiling:
  * - X: GET /2/users/:id/tweets allows 10,000 requests per 15 minutes per app (~666/min); guard 600/min.
  * - TikTok: 600 requests per minute per endpoint; guard 500/min.
- * - YouTube: the Data API quota is 10,000 units a day per Google Cloud project, shared with publishing.
- *   An analytics job spends at most 2 units (playlistItems + a 50-id videos.list), so 3,000 jobs a day
- *   stay under 6,000 units and leave the rest for uploads.
+ * - YouTube has no shared guard. A metrics job reads `videos.list` in batches of 50 ids (one Data API
+ *   unit for 50 videos) and one YouTube Analytics API report; uploads have their own quota. A
+ *   `quotaExceeded` or 429 from Google is retried as rate_limited, and more quota is requested from
+ *   Google when that happens.
  * - Bluesky: a PDS allows 3,000 requests per 5 minutes per IP over all endpoints (600/min,
  *   docs.bsky.app "Rate Limits", `global-ip` in @atproto/pds rate-limits.ts), shared with publishing
  *   through the same host; guard 500/min per PDS host. The public AppView documents no number.
@@ -56,7 +57,6 @@ private static function shared(SocialAccount $account): ?Limit
         return match ($account->platform) {
             Platform::X => Limit::perMinute(600)->by("{$network}:app"),
             Platform::TikTok => Limit::perMinute(500)->by("{$network}:app"),
-            Platform::YouTube => Limit::perDay(3000)->by("{$network}:project"),
             Platform::Bluesky => Limit::perMinute(500)->by("{$network}:pds:".parse_url((string) data_get($account->meta, 'service', config('trypost.platforms.bluesky.default_service')), PHP_URL_HOST)),
             Platform::Mastodon => Limit::perMinute(50)->by("{$network}:instance:{$account->mastodonInstance()}"),
             default => null,
diff --git a/tests/Feature/Analytics/PublicationMetricsJobsTest.php b/tests/Feature/Analytics/PublicationMetricsJobsTest.php
index 5b94c7a3d..4232ec09e 100644
--- a/tests/Feature/Analytics/PublicationMetricsJobsTest.php
+++ b/tests/Feature/Analytics/PublicationMetricsJobsTest.php
@@ -308,7 +308,7 @@ function discoveredFor(AnalyticsPublication $publication): DiscoveredPublication
     'instagram is limited per token' => [Platform::Instagram, null],
     'facebook is limited per page token' => [Platform::Facebook, null],
     'x shares the app limit' => [Platform::X, 'x:app'],
-    'youtube shares the project quota' => [Platform::YouTube, 'youtube:project'],
+    'youtube is limited only per channel' => [Platform::YouTube, null],
     'tiktok shares the app limit' => [Platform::TikTok, 'tiktok:app'],
 ]);