How To Switch Betwixt Youtube Channels Later On Linking To A Google+ Page

Note March 2019: alongside latest version the YouTube, hither are instructions for switching betwixt channel identities.

There accept been a break of reports inwards the YouTube aid forum from users who were shown a prompt bespeak them to update their channel who flora that afterwards choosing the choice to operate out on their username they tin no longer discovery their video uploads, playlists or favorites. It unremarkably turns out their one-time channel hasn't disappeared, but rather is only a fleck trickier to larn to: what has happened is that they've linked their YouTube channel to a Google+ Page.

When a YouTube channel is linked to a Google+ Page, the channel is moved to the Google+ Page's special Google account. That way that the master Google concern human relationship you lot used to sign into your YouTube channel tin hold upwardly used to practise a novel YouTube channel linked to your Google+ Profile. 

You tin hence switch betwixt the YouTube channel linked to your Google+ Page in addition to the YouTube channel linked to your Google+ Profile. 

There are several ways to switch betwixt your YouTube channels:

1. Select the YouTube channel you lot would similar to role from the prompt you lot encounter when you lot sign into your YouTube account

2. After signing into YouTube, become to the YouTube channel switcher page (www.youtube.com/channel_switcher) to select the channel you lot desire to use

3. Click your avatar inwards the upper right-hand corner of whatever page on YouTube in addition to pick out the "Switch accounts" choice from the menu.

I'll become through each of those options inwards to a greater extent than special below.

How practise you lot switch betwixt all the unlike YouTube channels that you lot manage? And how practise you lot discovery your master YouTube channel afterwards linking it to a Google+ Page?

When you lot sign in to your YouTube concern human relationship afterwards linking your YouTube channel to a Google+ Page, you lot should see a prompt that asks you lot to pick out between the unlike channels managed past times your Google account. 

Here's an instance of how that looks: 

One choice volition hold upwardly the YouTube channel linked to your Google+ Profile (or your channel that is non linked to Google+, if you lot accept one). That volition present your Google+ Profile avatar or a blueish caput in addition to your electronic mail address below your channel name. 

The other options to select from are the YouTube channels linked to a Google+ Page that you lot manage. Those volition either present a generic Google+ Page icon (a foursquare of squares) or your Google+ Page's avatar. 

Select the channel you lot desire to role from the list. If you lot chose to practise a Google+ Page from your YouTube channel's username, you lot should encounter your channel username inwards the listing of options, in addition to all your videos, playlists, lookout history, in addition to likes should withal hold upwardly there.

Note that if you lot don't desire the "Use YouTube as..." channel selector prompt to present every fourth dimension you lot sign in, you lot tin plow that choice off inwards your YouTube account's advanced settings (www.youtube.com/account_advanced):

Turning off the channel selector way you lot volition hold upwardly signed into your Google+ Profile-linked YouTube channel past times default.

How practise you lot switch betwixt YouTube channels afterwards you lot are signed into YouTube?

Once you lot are signed into YouTube, you lot may desire to switch betwixt your unlike YouTube channels.  In fact, if you lot are signed into YouTube but don't encounter your channel's contents, the showtime affair you lot desire to endeavor is switching to a unlike channel your concern human relationship manages.

There are ii unlike ways to switch betwixt channels afterwards signing into your account:

•  Open the YouTube channel switcher (www.youtube.com/channel_switcher) in addition to select the channel you lot desire to use.

The channel switcher volition present your Google+ Profile in addition to all the unlike Google+ Pages your YouTube channel manages - fifty-fifty those Pages that don't accept a YouTube channel linked to them.

Choose the Google+ Page or Profile you lot desire to switch to, in addition to acquit inwards hear that if you lot pick out a Google+ Page that doesn't accept a YouTube channel linked to it, selecting it from the channel switcher volition practise a novel YouTube channel for that Page.

However, you lot are watching a video or within your concern human relationship settings, you lot may non desire to leave of absence that page only to switch to a unlike YouTube channel that you lot manage. 

If that's the case, at that spot is an alternative:

• Switch betwixt your channels inwards the top card afterwards clicking your avatar

Note: this card changed every bit of June 2014

To switch betwixt channels without leaving the YouTube page you lot are on:

• Click your avatar or channel icon inwards the upper correct corner

• From the card that appears, select the channel identity you lot would similar to use

Note in i lawsuit to a greater extent than that all the Google+ Pages your YouTube concern human relationship manages volition hold upwardly inwards that list. If you lot select a Google+ Page that is non yet linked to a YouTube channel, you lot volition hold upwardly prompted to practise one.

The bottom line: if you've of late "updated" your YouTube channel in addition to your channel contents accept seemingly disappeared, depository fiscal establishment jibe to encounter if you lot tin switch to your one-time channel. Your contents should all hold upwardly there.

It's also much problem to operate out on switching!

If you lot are finding it annoying to accept to operate out on switching betwixt your personal Google+ Profile  identity in addition to your Google+ Page identity, you lot tin set a default channel for your YouTube account.

How to ready a default channel identity for your YouTube account 

You tin also set a password for your Google+ Page in addition to sign inwards to it directly.

How to ready a password for your Google+ Page in addition to connected YouTube channel.

More data nearly managing Google+ Pages:

YouTube Help Center: Manage channels linked to Google+ Pages

(Updated links in addition to images on 3/18/14 in addition to 6/24/14 )
(Last update: March 2019)

Sharing Your Youtube Videos From A Google+ Page: Videos Missing? Modify Your Default Channel.

Update Feb 2019: YouTube is removing all remaining Google+-related features 

Update Jan 2017: amongst the lastly switch to the novel Google+ spider web design, it's no longer possible to insert a YouTube video amongst the instructions here. You tin portion from the YouTube video scout page, or re-create together with glue the YouTube video link inwards a novel post.
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It's tardily to portion a video from your YouTube channel on Google+. Simply select the "Video" sharing option, switch to "Your YouTube videos" together with select an upload from the list.

Sounds straightforward, right? Unfortunately it sometimes doesn't operate every bit expected:  your channel's video uploads may non live listed at that topographic point - or worse, the videos from the incorrect channel are displayed.  To ready that, y'all bespeak to set the default channel for 3rd political party applications your YouTube account. Read on for to a greater extent than detailed instructions.

How to portion 1 of your video uploads on Google+
To portion 1 of your YouTube channel's uploaded videos to Google+ all y'all bespeak to utilization is click the video icon at the bottom of the "Share what's new" box:

Then become to the "Your YouTube videos" tab:

You should come across all of your channel's videos listed there.  Just scroll downward the listing together with select the video y'all desire to share.

But sometimes at that topographic point is a problem.  "Your YouTube videos" mayhap doesn't display whatever videos, fifty-fifty though y'all accept uploads. Or maybe it lists videos from the incorrect YouTube channel.

So why are your videos missing? And what's the fix? Setting the default channel inwards your YouTube account.

One of the features of having YouTube channels linked to Google+ is that y'all tin grapple multiple YouTube channels from your YouTube account. You tin accept 1 channel linked to your Google+ Profile, together with y'all tin grapple upward to 50 YouTube channels linked to Google+ Pages.

When y'all portion a video through Google+, y'all aren't given the choice to select which of your YouTube channels y'all desire to select a video from. And every bit y'all tin come across from the screenshots above, Google+ doesn't fifty-fifty display which channel it's accessing.

So how utilization y'all alter the default channel? You tin utilization that in your YouTube account's advanced settings.

1. Sign into your YouTube work concern human relationship and make certain that y'all are switched to your Google+ Profile identity, non 1 of your Google+ Pages.

If y'all are non using your YouTube channel every bit your Google+ Profile identity, become to www.youtube.com/channel_switcher and select your profile.

2. Go to your YouTube channel's advanced settings (www.youtube.com/account_advanced)

3.  In the drop-down bill of fare nether "Signing inwards to Older Apps" select the YouTube channel y'all would similar to postal service videos from.

"Use my electrical current account" agency that the default volition live your Google+ Profile-linked channel.

Be certain to click "Save" when y'all are done!

4. Now when y'all become dorsum to Google+ y'all volition live able to portion videos from the channel y'all selected.

Note that the default is linked to the Google work concern human relationship that y'all are signed into to grapple your Google+ Page. Each managing director of your Google+ Page together with YouTube channels tin laid their ain default YouTube channel. 

Also banking enterprise complaint that this volition live the default channel for all 3rd political party apps, including video uploading or editing software together with your Blogger blogs.

What if y'all accept multiple Google+ Page-linked channels y'all desire to portion videos from?

If y'all desire to portion videos from dissimilar channels, y'all accept several options.

1. Paste a link to your video straight into the "Share what's new" box on Google+. This is the easiest way to share!

2. If your Google+ Page has multiple managers, y'all tin sign into Google+ every bit a dissimilar manager. Each manager's YouTube channel tin accept a dissimilar default YouTube channel set.

3. In the Google+ video sharing window y'all tin travel inwards a video URL:

4. In the Google+ video sharing window y'all tin utilization a YouTube search:

5. You tin share your video from YouTube directly:

6. Also, when y'all upload a novel video to YouTube, y'all tin portion it straight to the linked Google+ Page or Profile's stream.

Additional information:

Inserting your YouTube videos into Blogger posts afterward linking your channel to Google+: a ready for missing videos

How to laid the default channel for your YouTube work concern human relationship afterward linking to Google+

YouTube Help: Share videos

(updated 6/24/14)
(Last updated: March 2019)

How To Reply To Quondam Youtube Comments Using The Novel Google+ Comment System

One pregnant limitation of the novel Google+ commenting organisation on YouTube is that comments posted nether the onetime organisation convey been effectively orphaned. Conversations convey been abruptly terminated in addition to pending questions are going unanswered, because at that topographic point is no slowly agency to lead reply to those onetime comments.

Andrew Bossom suggests a work-around that lets you lot respond to at to the lowest degree to a greater extent than or less of those onetime comments, in addition to hopefully volition allow you lot instruct the tidings going 1 time again on your channel. If the channel that posted the master comment is linked to Google+, you lot tin sack ship service a novel comment that + mentions the commenter. They volition have a notification of that novel comment that mentions them.

 

Of course of pedagogy that exclusively plant alongside channels that are connected to a Google+ Page or Profile. If the channel is non connected to Google+, in addition to it's of import to reply to them, the exclusively other alternative I tin sack intend of is sending them a someone message. At to the lowest degree thence they won't intend you've forgotten them.

(last update: March 2019)

Blog Equally A Google+ Page: Existent Cite Non Required

Note: Google volition beback upwards your Google+ Page data earlier then. Brand Accounts volition non hold upwards deleted too you lot tin maintain to sign inward straight if you lot accept that laid up.

Note: As of September 2016, it is no longer possible to laid a password for take away sign-in to a Google+ Page or its Brand Account. If you lot accept an existing Brand Account amongst a password set, you lot volition maintain to hold upwards able to sign in.

The alternative is to use a Blogger Profile for your Blogger Account.

If you lot accept a YouTube channel, gamer tag, work concern or brand, you lot may desire to spider web log using that identity, rather than your Google+ Profile's mutual name. If your Blogger work concern human relationship is connected amongst your Google+ account, you lot tin associate you lot spider web log amongst a Google+ Page. But fifty-fifty afterward you've connected your Page, your Google+ Profile shout out volition withal hold upwards the writer of your spider web log posts.

So what tin you lot practise if you lot don't desire your personal Google+ Profile shout out associated amongst your blog? How tin you lot spider web log pseudonymously or anonymously?

You accept a span of options:

1. Use a "limited" Blogger Profile

2. Add your Google+ Page equally a spider web log writer too write posts equally your Page.
     (Note: this is only possible if you lot accept an former Google+ Page amongst a password set).

Authoring posts equally your Google+ Page lets you lot maintain your pseudonymity spell using Blogger's Google+ features.

Revert to a Blogger Profile

Note: amongst the update of the Blogger interface inward Nov 2016, the instructions below are out of date. You tin uncovering this setting nether your Blogger Settings > User Settings.

Current instructions: How to laid a Blogger Profile

If your spider web log is connected to Google+, your Google+ Profile is automatically the writer of each post. You tin build your shout out less prominent past times removing the "Author" champaign from the Blog Post  gadget inward your blog's Layout. However fifty-fifty though your writer shout out may non hold upwards equally visible on your blog, it may withal look inward other places, such equally your blog's post feed. And your shout out too Google+ Profile may hold upwards linked to whatever comments you lot make.

If you lot desire to spider web log nether a pseudonym, i choice is to use a regular "limited" Blogger Profile that is non associated amongst Google+. To switch from a Google+ Profile to a Blogger Profile:

1. Sign to your Blogger Dashboard (https://www.blogger.com/home)

2. Click the gear icon. You tin choose the "Revert to a Blogger profile" choice from the menu.

Alternatively, larn straight to https://www.blogger.com/revert-profile.g

The downward side of reverting to a Blogger profile is that you lot volition no longer hold upwards able to role Google+ features such equally Google+ comments, mentioning people inward your circles and automatically sharing to Google+.

To retain all the Google+ features on your blog, but post using something other than your "common name" you lot tin instead add together your Google+ Page equally an writer of your blog.

Add your Google+ Page equally a spider web log author

Note: equally of September 2016, Google no longer offers the choice to laid a password for a Google+ Page. You tin banking concern correspond to run across if you lot older Page too its Brand Account has a password laid past times opening your Brand Account listing  (myaccount.google.com/brandaccounts), too clicking the Brand Account name. If you lot run across an Update Password button, at that spot is a password set. If you lot don't run across that button, that is non an option.

To role Google+ features on Blogger without using your Google+ Profile equally your writer identity, you lot bespeak to add together a Google+ Page for your spider web log equally an author. Blogger lets you lot add an writer to your spider web log past times adding the author's Google work concern human relationship e-mail address - the trick, then, is doing that for your Google+ Page's Google account.

1. If you lot haven't done hence already, create a Google+ build Page to stand upwards for your blog. You tin practise that at plus.google.com/dashboard

2. Create a password for your Google+ Page.

Instructions here: Set a password for your Google+ Page too connected YouTube channel
Make authorities notation of your Google+ Page's @pages.plusgoogle.com username 

3. Add your Google+ Page's e-mail username equally an writer to your blog 

• Go to your blog's Settings -> Basic
• Click "Add Author"
• Enter your Google+ Page's @pages.plusgoogle.com username
• Click "Invite authors"

4. Copy the "Accept invitation" link

Look for the e-mail writer invitation from Blogger inward the e-mail work concern human relationship laid to have your Google+ Page notifications. 

The invitation volition accept a big orangish "Accept invitation" push - don't click this button!

Instead, re-create the push link. If you lot are using Chrome you lot tin alt-click the push too choose re-create link address. 

(Note: if you've added a Gmail e-mail to your Google+ Page too you lot are receiving the notification inward your Google+ Page's Gmail account, larn ahead too click the button.)

5.  Now opened upwards a novel browser too sign into Google or Blogger (www.blogger.com) amongst your Google+ Page's username too password. Once you lot are signed inward equally your Google+ Page, glue the "Accept invitation" URL into the browser's address bar.

You should run across your Google+ Page's profile photograph too shout out inward the upper correct corner too a big orangish "Accept Invitation" button. Now you tin click the orangish button.

6. Now you lot tin sign into Blogger equally your Google+ Page too post using your Page identity.

7. Optional: Sign inward to Blogger using your master Google account, larn to your Settings too promote your Google+ Page from "Author" to "Admin". As an Admin you lot volition hold upwards able to alter your blog's Layout, run across your Stats too more.

Once you've got it ready it's easy. I'm posting equally a Google+ Page correct now!

Also see Adam Auster's post: Your hugger-mugger blogging identity

Related: Manage your Google+ Settings for your Blogger Blog

Week Inwards Review - January 3, 2015: 2014 Inwards Review, Disabled Adsense Accounts, Google Describe Of Piece Of Job Organisation Human Relationship Security

Happy 2015! Here are this week's updates, tips too articles virtually YouTube, Google+, AdSense too more.

YouTube

• YouTube Creators: vote on your favorite YouTube update inwards 2014 (plus.google.com/+PeggyKTC/posts/fWSzXDizRoH)

Google+

• Review 2014: Google+ gifts a yr inwards Google+ Photos painting (plus.google.com/108932369211903792872/posts/3oCZDFvpkZL)
• Get back upwardly for Clash of Clans (from Supercell, non Google+)
  (plus.google.com/+AyoubKhote/posts/JsQpGj5gV7i)

AdSense

• What happens when an AdSense concern human relationship is disabled for invalid activity? The coin is returned to advertisers (see article: An Insider Told Us Why Google Takes Millions From Web Sites Who Break Its Rules )

Other Google updates

• Google Online Security Blog: Behind enemy lines inwards our country of war against concern human relationship hijackers

Updated March 2019 to take away Google+ links

Week Inwards Review - February 28, 2015 - Youtube Kids, Blogger Porn, Novel Direction For Google+ Photos In Addition To More

Some of updates, tips together with articles from the by week:

YouTube

• YouTube Kids app is launched
• Shorthand vanity URLs for YouTube channels: directly based on new-style custom URLs (posted here)
• Android YouTube app update: just trim down your videos together with banking concern stand upwards for out the novel inline video preview
• iOS YouTube app update: run across what you lot are typing :)

Google+

• AdSense Publishers: there's a novel AdSense Revenue Profile report

Webmasters

• Make certain your site is mobile-friendly (Google volition starting fourth dimension expand mobile friendly every bit a ranking indicate on Apr 21)

Updated March 2019 to withdraw Google+ links

Week Inwards Review - March 28, 2015: Back Upward Local Business, Alive Broadcasting Apps, Big Weblog Images

This week's top updates, tips, articles as well as posts for YouTube Creators, Bloggers, Webmasters, Live Broadcasters, Local Business owners, as well as people living inward the 21st century. Read on for all this week's highlights.

YouTube

• Connect your YouTube channel to Twitter (but non Facebook)  (Google+ news of my post here)
• YouTube Creators: honour gratuitous music as well as images to operate inward your video fifty-fifty commercially!
• YouTube Creators: customize your channel to display playlists as well as highlight other channels
• Three ways to travel out along people from unsubscribing from your YouTube channel (Tim Schmoyer @ Video Creators) 
• Would you lot pay to run across videos from your favorite YouTube stars earlier everyone else? Vessel may endure for you!

Live Video Broadcasting

• Overview of Meerkat for Live Streaming on Twitter as well as Automate the saving of your Meerkat alive flow to YouTube using Katchkat (Krishna De)
• Twitter's Live Broadcasting app Periscope at in 1 lawsuit available for iOS
• Rumor: YouTube taking on Twitch amongst emphasis on gaming alive broadcasts. YouTube's response? An animated GIF.

Google+

• Looking for attention on Google+? Help us to attention you lot (Kamal Tailor)
• Notification Basics: how to read as well as answer to your Google+ as well as YouTube comment notifications (Carol Dodsley)

Local Business

• Support your Local Businesses: transportation a postcard highlighting the local businesses you lot love!
• Local concern owner? Get your concern on the map!

Bloggers as well as Webmasters

• Blogger tip: brand certain your weblog post has an picture at to the lowest degree 400 pixels broad for Google+ to present a full-bleed picture instead of a pocket-size thumbnail when you lot part the link
• Q&A Session for Google's upcoming mobile-friendly ranking change
• Is that shiny badge on your website promoting your competitors?
• YouTube Playlist without Google: Create a YouTube Playlist to embed on your website without signing inward (Amit Agarwal)
• Do you lot display the Navbar at the top of your Blogger blog? (Carol Dodsley)

Productivity

• Export your Google Keep notes to Google Docs to expand as well as edit them

AdSense

• AdSense Publishers: increase your net turn a profit yesteryear focusing on the Long-term Revenue Framework
• AdSense-related highlights of the FTC Staff Report on Google & Antitrust issues: 10 sites stand upwardly for 80% of AdSense traffic, operate of exclusivity as well as preferential handling agreements, lack of alternatives for publishers (sorry Bing ads), as well as declining revenues

Account Security & Management

• Is your Google concern human relationship secure? Check your concern human relationship activity! (Jaana Nystrom)
• Back upwardly your Chrome bookmarks, passwords, history as well as settings (WC Blitzy)

This 21st century life

• Pervasive, persuasive technology: smart plenty to exploit human nature
• Putting women on the map: SPARK is has created a database of locations where women convey made history to Google Field Trip. When you lot are near, you'll endure notified.

For more, follow me on Google+ or Twitter

You tin besides subscribe to my weekly update yesteryear email. 

Updated March 2019 to withdraw Google+ links