Wednesday, March 18, 2020

Transfer Your Youtube Channel To A Dissimilar Google+ Profile Or Page

Update June 2016: YouTube no long requires linking to a Google+ Profile or Page. Instead your YouTube channel is either on your principal Google Account or a Brand Account. The transfer procedure plant the same way, merely mean value "Brand Account" for every cite of a "Google+ Page" below.

Update March 2019: This procedure notwithstanding works, but with the shutdown of consumer Google+ on Apr 2, 2019, at that topographic point are solely Brand Accounts, non Google+ Pages.  I convey updated the text to refer to "Google Account" instead of "Google+ Profile" too "Brand Account" instead of "Google+ Page". 

Don’t desire to comment on YouTube amongst your existent name? Or is your channel connected to the wrong Google Account or  Brand Account? Now you lot tin displace your YouTube channel to a unlike Google identity.

New! YouTube has merely launched a channel transfer tool that allows you lot to displace your YouTube channel to or from a Brand Account.

YouTube Help Center: Move YouTube channel to Brand Account
    1. Sign inward equally the possessor of the YouTube channel you lot desire to transfer
    2. Open your channel’s Advanced Account Settings (www.youtube.com/account_advanced)
    3. Select the selection to transfer your channel (www.youtube.com/account_transfer_channel)
    4. Re-enter your Google work organisation human relationship password
    5. Review your electrical current channel details
    6. Scroll downward to reckon the listing of finish Brand Accounts 
    7. Select a finish Google Account or Brand Account
    8. If the finish Google Account or Brand Account Profile is already connected to a channel, delete it
    9. Move your channel

What is (and is not) transferred along amongst your YouTube channel?

Your channel too its contents volition last transferred, but whatever comments or messages volition rest amongst the source Google Account or Brand Account

What will last transferred along amongst your YouTube channel:
  • uploaded videos
  • playlists, favorites too likes
  • subscriptions
  • subscribers
  • legacy username
What will NOT last transferred along amongst your YouTube channel:


You must the possessor of both source too finish Brand Accounts

To transfer your YouTube channel from 1 Google identity to another, you lot must last signed inward equally the possessor of both the source too finish Google Account too Brand Account(s).
  1. Not certain whether you lot are the owner? You tin figure out which work organisation human relationship is the owner inward the Brand Account sec director settings. 
  2. Open your Brand Account listing at myaccount.google.com/brandaccounts
  3. Click the Brand Account name to opened upwardly the Details page
  4. On the Brand Account's Details page click Manage Permissions
  5. The Brand Account's Managers too Owners are listed. You tin displace your cursor over the shout out to reckon their e-mail address.

What if the the finish Brand Account is owned past times a unlike account?

If you lot desire to transfer your YouTube channel to a Brand Account  that is owned past times a unlike Google account, you lot convey 2 options:

How tin I transfer my channel from 1 Google Account to a unlike Google Account?

A Google work organisation human relationship tin solely last associated amongst 1 Google+ Profile. Moving a YouTube channel from 1 Google Account  to a unlike Google Account requires an intermediary Brand Account for the transfer process.

1. You volition commencement need to create a Brand Account for your YouTube channel:

  • Sign inward to YouTube channel
  • Open www.youtube.com/channel_switcher
  • Click + Create a novel channel
  • Follow the steps to do a novel channel amongst a Brand Account
2. Then go through the YouTube channel transfer process (described below) to displace your channel from your Google Account to the novel Brand Account. 

Note that you lot volition convey to handle to supplant the novel channel on the novel Brand Account. Make certain you lot are replacing the right channel, equally deleted channels cannot last recovered.

3. After 24 hours you lot can transfer ownership of the Brand Account to the finish Google Account.

4. Sign inward to the finish work organisation human relationship too repeat the transfer process, this fourth dimension from the Google+ Page to the finish Google Account


5. Once the transfer is complete, too your YouTube channel is no longer connected, you lot can delete the Brand Account

How to transfer your YouTube channel from 1 Brand Account to roughly other Brand Account or Google Account

1. Sign inward to YouTube equally the possessor of the channel you lot desire to transfer.

You may need to switch channel identities past times clicking your avatar inward the upper right corner, or past times going to “All my channels” (www.youtube.com/channel_switcher)

2. Open your channel’s advanced settings

To opened upwardly your YouTube channel's Advanced Settings
  • click your avatar inward the upper right corner
  • click the gear icon
  • click “Advanced”
Or larn to www.youtube.com/account_advanced

3. Select the selection to transfer your YouTube channel

If you lot do non reckon the selection to transfer your channel, you lot are probable non signed inward equally the Owner. 

On the Advanced Settings page nether Account Information click the link to start the channel transfer procedure :
Move channel to your Google Account or a unlike Brand Account

If you lot are signed inward equally Owner of a Brand Account-connected channel it volition terra firma "You're the possessor of this channel too the connected Brand Account", too you lot should last able to proceed.

If you lot are signed inward equally the Manager of the Brand Account-connected channel you lot volition need to sign inward amongst the Owner Google account. The "Move channel" link volition last grayed out.

You may also reckon an mistake message. You volition need to sign inward to YouTube amongst the Google work organisation human relationship that owns the channel.

4. Re-enter your Google work organisation human relationship password.

You volition need to re-enter your Google work organisation human relationship password. This ensures that someone who inadvertently gains access to your work organisation human relationship should non last able to transfer your YouTube channel.

Note: it's expert do to e'er sign out of your work organisation human relationship when you lot stride away from your computer. And never percentage your work organisation human relationship login details.

5. Review the details shown virtually your channel

You volition reckon details virtually your channel too the electrical current Brand Account or Google Account it is connected to. Review those details to build certain that you lot are transferring the right channel.
  • legacy username, if set
  • channel name
  • number of uploads, subscribers too playlists
  • custom URL, if set 

6. Scroll downward to reckon the finish list

You volition reckon a listing of the available Brand Accounts that you lot Own, too that do non convey a channel
too below that a listing of Brand Accounts too Google Accounts that already convey a YouTube channel.
Yes, I convey likewise many Brand Accounts.


If you lot do non reckon the Brand Account you lot desire to displace your channel to inward either list, you lot are non signed inward equally an possessor of your finish Brand Account. You volition convey to transfer ownership of that Brand Account - at to the lowest degree temporarily - to consummate the transfer process.

If you lot desire to transfer your channel from 1 Google Account to a unlike Google Account, you lot volition convey to use a Brand Account equally an intermediary.

7. Select the finish Brand Account or Google Account

If you lot click on an Available Brand Account you lot volition thus reckon a confirmation covert showing the details of your channel later the transfer.

March 2019: Note that this currently incorrectly shows the "after move" channel icon equally the same equally the electrical current channel icon. The channel icon volition genuinely change. 

Check the details earlier completing the transfer!

Note that piece a legacy username volition last transferred along amongst your channel, the custom URL volition rest amongst the master Google Account or Brand Account. Even if you lot delete that custom URL, you lot volition non last able to add together it dorsum later transferring your channel.

8. Delete the YouTube channel connected to your finish Brand Account

If you lot click on a Brad Account that is already connected to a YouTube channel, you lot volition last given the selection of deleting that channel to consummate the transfer.

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 confirmation covert volition look that lists the let out of videos, playlists too comments that volition last permanently deleted along amongst the channel. Click the channel's URL to sentiment it.

Click the red Delete Channel button to consummate the process.

9. Click the Move channel push clit to consummate the process

Your channel volition similar a shot last transferred.

Note that you lot may non last able to access your channel for upwardly to 72 hours later transfer. Don't panic! If you lot are notwithstanding having problem accessing your channel later 72 hours, delight report the effect inward the official YouTube Help Forum.

Be certain to update links to your channel's custom URL inward your promotional material!

What are the alternatives for changing your YouTube channel identity?

If you lot cannot transfer your channel to a unlike Brand Account at that topographic point are alternatives for changing your YouTube identity.
If you lot convey questions or meet problems, post your interrogation inward the official YouTube assistance forum.

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