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Saturday, October 12, 2019

G Suite For Didactics Users: Transfer Ownership Of Youtube Build Accounts Earlier July 10Th

Ever since consumer Google+ nigh downwards on Apr 2nd, G Suite for Education users stimulate got been unable to create a novel YouTube channel on a Brand Account. Eventually many received an e-mail from G Suite that says G Suite for Education users volition non live able to live the primary possessor for Brand Accounts:
  • Your G Suite for Education job organisation human relationship tin no longer live used to create a Brand Account or bring together an existing Brand Account.
  • On July 10, 2019, Google volition delete whatever Brand Account for which your G Suite for Education user job organisation human relationship is the primary owner.
  • On July 10, 2019, Google volition revoke membership of your G Suite for Education user job organisation human relationship from whatever remaining Brand Account yous are a fellow member of.
Since the shutdown of consumer Google+, Brand Accounts are actually entirely used for YouTube channels. The Brand Account lets the YouTube channel stimulate got multiple managers, together with it tin stimulate got a mention that is dissimilar than your personal Google job organisation human relationship name.

Many G Suite for Education users stimulate got a YouTube channel on a Brand Account for their school, classroom or educational videos.

The deadline is imminent, but don't panic! Your G Suite administrator tin asking a temporary extension for existing members of existing Brand Accounts who are non students together with are over xviii years old. The extension lasts until July 15, 2020. Admins tin build the asking via https://support.google.com/a/contact/edu_brandaccount. If they haven't done so, they take to create that now.

Update July 11, 2019: If yous cannot sign inward to YouTube or your Brand Account together with destination upward on this page "Your Primary/Secondary (K-12) School Brand Account is Suspended "all promise is non lost! If yous are over the historic menses of 18 and not a primary or secondary (K-12) schoolhouse student, you may contact your school’s G Suite administrator to asking an extension to unsuspend Brand Accounts yous own. Your admin must submit this asking for extension form before Nov 1, 2019. All suspended Brand Accounts volition otherwise live deleted later Nov 15th.

But fifty-fifty alongside an extension, yous take to build certain yous don't lose your YouTube channel or other information associated alongside your Brand Account. All Brand Accounts that stimulate got a G Suite for Education user every bit the Primary Owner volition live deleted later July 15, 2020, fifty-fifty if the job organisation human relationship received an extension.

You stimulate got a duo of options:
  1. Transfer primary ownership of the Brand Account to a consumer Google job organisation human relationship or non-Education G Suite account.
  2. Transfer the YouTube channel that's on the Brand Account to a user account. Download an archive of whatever other Brand Account data.
Read on for detailed instructions:

View together with Manage your Brand Account's Primary Owner

The Primary Owner of your Brand Account needs to live a consumer Google job organisation human relationship (for illustration using an @gmail.com email) or a non-Education G Suite user account. Here is how yous tin banking concern represent that information.

1. Sign inward to Google alongside your G Suite for Education account

2. Open your Brand Account listing at https://myaccount.google.com/brandaccounts
    You volition no longer live able to create create whatever of those Brand Accounts every bit of July 10th.

3. Click the Brand Account mention together with therefore click Manage Permissions 

4. That volition present yous all the Brand Account's Owners together with Managers.  If the business office for "You" is Primary Owner, therefore yous take to transfer primary ownership to a dissimilar account.
 You tin run into the e-mail username of whatever possessor or director yesteryear moving your mouse over their name.

5. You tin promote an Owner or Manager to Primary Owner

Click the downwards arrow to the correct of the user's electrical flow business office to modify their role. Select a novel business office from the menu. Note that yous may take to wait 24 hours to promote a novel Primary Owner.


You volition live prompted to confirm the transfer of primary ownership.
6. You tin too add a novel user every bit novel possessor therefore promote them to Primary Owner.

Click the +person icon at the hap of the Manage Permissions screen.


Enter their Google job organisation human relationship e-mail address together with select Owner every bit their role.
The invited Owner needs to stimulate got the invitation using the link inward their invite email, or yesteryear viewing Pending Invitations at https://myaccount.google.com/brandaccounts

Once they stimulate got accepted the Owner invite, they tin be promoted to Primary Owner every bit inward Step v above.

More information: How to Manage your Google Brand Accounts

Transfer your Brand Account YouTube Channel to a User Account

If yous create non desire to transfer primary ownership of your Brand Account exterior your organization, yous tin transfer the Brand Account's YouTube Channel to a G Suite user account, as long every bit YouTube is turned on.

My agreement is that this modify volition entirely impact Brand Accounts. G Suite for Education users volition all the same live able to stimulate got a YouTube channel on their user account. There are ii downsides to that:
  • The YouTube channel takes on the user job organisation human relationship name. If yous transfer the YouTube channel to your ain G Suite for Education user account, the channel mention volition live your name.
  • It's non possible to stimulate got multiple managers for a YouTube channel on a user account, rather than on a Brand Account.
But if a novel user alongside the YouTube channel mention is created yesteryear your G Suite for Education administrator, yous should live able to movement the Brand Account's YouTube channel to that user account. Talk to your administrator to build certain that YouTube is enabled every bit a service for the account.

1. The user job organisation human relationship must live an Owner of the YouTube channel's Brand Account. Add them every bit an possessor of the Brand Account yesteryear next the instructions outlined above.

2. Sign inward to YouTube on desktop, together with switch to the Brand Account channel.
You tin click "Switch Channels" on the carte du jour or create therefore from www.youtube.com/channel_switcher.

3. Open Settings > Advanced (www.youtube.com/account_advanced)

4. Under Account Information click Move channel to your Google Account or a dissimilar Brand Account
If yous create non run into this option, build certain yous are signed inward every bit the owner of the Brand Account.

5. You volition live prompted to sign inward again, therefore yous volition run into a listing of options to transfer the channel, including your primary G Suite user job organisation human relationship together with whatever other owned Brand Accounts.
Select your G Suite for Education user account. Note that when yous transfer the channel, whatever existing channel on that Google job organisation human relationship volition live replaced.

Follow the prompts to consummate the process.

H5N1 few things to note:
  • Your channel's videos, playlists together with subscribers volition all live transferred.
  • It may convey upward to 72 hours for your transferred channel to completely update.
  • The custom URL for the channel volition non live transferred.
  • The comments made yesteryear the channel volition non live transferred.
  • Any verification badge on the channel volition non live transferred.
Learn more: Move your YouTube channel to or from a Brand Account

Download an archive of your Brand Account data

As long every bit yous stimulate got possessor access to your Brand Account, yous tin create together with download an archive of all its information using Google Takeout. Note that this procedure does non delete whatever data, it but lets yous download a copy.

1. Sign inward to takeout.google.com every bit the Owner of the Brand Account.

2. Click your profile photograph at hap right, together with select the Brand Account identity.

You may stimulate got to click All your Brand Accounts to run into the total list.

3. Select the Google products and services yous desire to create an archive for.
Most Brand Accounts currently entirely stimulate got information for YouTube together with Google Photos. Google+ Page information has been deleted.

4. At the bottom of the listing click Next Step

5. Customize your Delivery Method
There are iv options for Brand Accounts:
  • Send link to download your archive yesteryear e-mail (this volition live sent to the e-mail notification address for the Brand Account)
  • Add to Dropbox
  • Add to OneDrive
  • Add to Box
Regular user accounts tin too stimulate got the archive delivered to Google Drive. This is non an pick for Brand Accounts.

6. Select the Export type, File type, and Archive size
The default settings are unremarkably the best option, therefore entirely modify those if necessary.

7. Click create archive

8. Download archive

When your archive is ready, yous volition live sent an email. If yous chose the delivery pick to download the archive, it may non operate to click the download pick inward the email. 

Instead sign dorsum inward to takeout.google.com, switch to the Brand Account identity, together with click the Manage Archives button at the hap of the page.

That volition convey yous to the Manage Archives page where yous tin download your data.
You must create this field yous all the same stimulate got Owner access to the Brand Account!

Learn more: Download a backup of your YouTube Brand Account Channel together with Google+ Page

For to a greater extent than information together with give-and-take see: Why are Brand Accounts beingness removed from G Suite for Education?
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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.

Who Owns Your Business's Google+ Page In Addition To Youtube Channel?

When consumer Google+ shuts downwards on Apr 2, 2019, all Google+ Pages in addition to their content volition live on deleted. This volition NOT touching your YouTube channel or the underlying Brand Account. Make certain to download a re-create of your Google+ Page's information earlier April. Learn how to salve your data.
This will non touching your YouTube channel or your YouTube channel's Brand Account.

Are you lot the possessor of your business's YouTube channel in addition to Google+ Page?  

Creating in addition to maintaining a YouTube channel, Google+ Page in addition to other social media profiles tin require a pregnant investment inward time, unloose energy in addition to expertise. It's natural that many line of piece of work organisation owners ofttimes delegate social media administration to hired experts, employees, or fifty-fifty interns.

But what line of piece of work organisation owners ofttimes don't appreciate is that having someone else create your accounts tin hateful losing command if that employee quits, is fired, or doesn't proceed a tape of the account's username in addition to password.


In the Google+ Help Community
in addition to YouTube Help Forum nosotros meet many pleas for assistance from line of piece of work organisation owners who desperately need to range access to their channel or page, but cannot because they can't sign inward to the Google Account that owns it. If an employee (or intern or friend) creates the line of piece of work organisation human relationship using their ain personal electronic mail in addition to information, in addition to volition non - or cannot - give the line of piece of work organisation possessor access, at that topographic point is commonly nada the line of piece of work organisation possessor tin produce to claim it. From Google's perspective, the creator of the line of piece of work organisation human relationship is the truthful possessor of the account.

Fortunately, Google offers a solution. You as the possessor of the line of piece of work organisation should command the Google Account that owns your company's Google+ Page in addition to YouTube channel. You tin then add together managers who tin post content, moderate comments in addition to create out the appearance of your profiles.

If you lot are hiring someone to create a Google+ Page in addition to YouTube channel for your business, build certain that you lot are the possessor - in addition to command the electronic mail username - of the Google line of piece of work organisation human relationship in addition to Google+ Profile they create.

1. Create a Google Account for social media using an electronic mail address on your business's domain


Note: you lot produce non need a Google+ Profile to create out a YouTube Channel or Google+ Page for your business. You produce need a Google Account.

Contrary to mutual belief, at that topographic point is no requirement that you lot have got a Gmail electronic mail address associated amongst your Google account. You tin create a Google line of piece of work organisation human relationship using a line of piece of work organisation electronic mail address, rather than a Gmail electronic mail yesteryear starting here:


The payoff of using an electronic mail address on your business's domain is that you lot should ever live on able to command access to that electronic mail line of piece of work organisation human relationship in addition to reset the password if necessary. If your line of piece of work organisation re-brands in addition to changes its domain, the email username on the Google line of piece of work organisation human relationship tin live on updated.

If you lot produce lead to add together a Gmail electronic mail address to your Google account, proceed inward heed that the Gmail address volition live on the username in addition to primary electronic mail for the account. If you lot don't know your account's Gmail electronic mail address, you lot won't live on able to sign inward or recover access to the account.



2. Optional: Create a novel Google+ Profile amongst your personal name


Note: every bit of July 2014 a Google+ Profile is non required to live on a personal name.  

Note: every bit of Nov 2015 it is no longer necessary to have got a Google+ Profile to operate a director of a Google+ Page. You tin live on Owner of the Page without whatever world Profile identity.

Google+ Profile names policy recommends that your profile stand upward for you lot every bit an individual. The profile doesn't have got to work your total legal name. It tin live on your maiden of all yell in addition to final initial, for event (like "Peggy K"). 

I mean value it is best do to proceed Profiles personal, in addition to have got a Page stand upward for your business. That agency your Page tin live on managed yesteryear people who don't have got "Owner" access.

Also live on certain to enter your ain nativity date, rather than your company's creation date. You don't desire your line of piece of work organisation human relationship to live on restricted because your line of piece of work organisation isn't eighteen years old!

If you lot don't programme to work the Google+ Profile, you lot tin change the settings thus that the profile doesn't seem inward Google's search results (plus.google.com/settings >Help others discovery my profile inward search results) .

You tin likewise lead to non have got whatever world Google+ Profile at all. Google+ Pages in addition to Brand Accounts tin live on managed at myaccount.google.com/brandaccounts which does non require a Google+ Profile.

3. Add Google line of piece of work organisation human relationship recovery options

If your Google line of piece of work organisation human relationship in addition to it's YouTube channel, photos, Blogger blogs, Google Drive documents in addition to Google+ Page are of import to you, you lot volition desire to live on certain the account recovery options are upward to date.

If your account's username is a Gmail email, you lot tin add a non-Gmail password recovery electronic mail address. This should live on an electronic mail line of piece of work organisation human relationship that you lot volition have got long-term access to - preferably an electronic mail on your line of piece of work organisation domain.

You likewise tin add a mobile telephone position out to your line of piece of work organisation human relationship for recovery purposes.

4. Once your social media Google line of piece of work organisation human relationship in addition to Google+ Profile are laid up, create a novel YouTube channel in addition to Google+ Page for your business

Update Feb 2017: Both YouTube  channels and Google My Business listings are straightaway divide from Google+, in addition to each tin live on created independently on a Brand Account. You tin create out all your Brand Accounts at myaccount.google.com/brandaccounts. 
Creating a Google My Business listing, Google+ Page, or line of piece of work organisation YouTube Channel likewise creates a novel Brand Account. If you lot have got an existing Brand Account, you lot tin add a Google+ Page or YouTube channel.

5. Add a director (or two) to your business's Google+ Page or YouTube Channel

So every bit a line of piece of work organisation owner, how to you lot build certain you lot hold your ownership of your Google+ Page in addition to YouTube channel without having to create out them yourself?

If you lot are going to have got an employee or social media director post content in addition to moderate comments, what you lot should produce is add their Google Account every bit a director of your Google+ Page or YouTube Channel's Brand Account. 

As the owner, only you lot volition live on able to add together in addition to withdraw managers or delete the Google+ Page in addition to YouTube channel. Your director tin produce everything else.

You tin add together (or remove) a director of your Google+ Page or YouTube channel yesteryear next these instructions:


Add or withdraw a Manager starting from YouTube
  1. Sign into YouTube amongst the Google Account that is the Owner of the channel 
  2. Make certain you lot are switched to using your Brand Account-connected channel (you tin switch at All My Channels www.youtube.com/channel_switcher)
  3. Click your channel icon/profile photograph at top right
  4. Click the gear icon to opened upward your line of piece of work organisation human relationship overview
  5. Click Add or withdraw managers
  6. That volition accept you lot to your YouTube channel's Brand Account details page
  7. Click the bluish Manage Permissions button
  8. Add, withdraw or promote Managers 
You tin detect to a greater extent than detailed instructions here:
There are 2 types of managers that tin live on added:
  • A communications manager can alone build posts on Google+ in addition to moderate in addition to reply to comments. Communication managers have got limited access to YouTube.
  • A total manager can likewise edit your profiles, post videos to YouTube, or run a Hangout on Air.
There tin live on upward to 50 managers for a Google+ Page. Just build certain you lot alone add together managers you lot tin trust!

If the employee managing your Google+ Page in addition to YouTube channel quits, or you lot lead to alter social media administration companies, their access tin live on speedily in addition to easily revoked.

My Google Account isn't the possessor of my business's Google+ Page in addition to YouTube channel - what tin I do?

If you've read through this in addition to come upward to the realization that you lot aren't the possessor of your business's Google+ Page in addition to YouTube channel, thus that tin live on remedied.

1. First figure out which Google Account owns your business's Brand Account amongst its Google+ Page in addition to YouTube Channel

Hopefully you lot know who that mortal is in addition to they tin recollect how to sign into their account! The managers of Google+ Pages in addition to YouTube channels are non publicly visible (by design) in addition to at that topographic point is no agency to asking that information from Google.

If you lot tin sign inward every bit the director of the Google+ Page or YouTube channel's Brand Account, you lot tin detect out the yell of the owner:

  1. Sign inward to your Brand Account dashboard (myaccount.google.com/brandaccounts)
  2. Click the Brand Account name
  3. Click the bluish "Manage Permissions" button. 
That volition demo you lot the names of all the Brand Account's owners in addition to managers.

If you lot don't know which Google Account owns your business's Google+ Page in addition to YouTube channel, you lot unfortunately don't have got many options.


  • try sharing a message privately on Google+


Hopefully the possessor of the Google+ Page volition have an electronic mail notification in addition to respond.

2. Have ownership of the Google+ Page or YouTube Channel's Brand Account transferred to your Google Account

If your Google Account has been a director of the Google+ Page or YouTube channel's Brand Account for at to the lowest degree 2 weeks 24 hours, the electrical current possessor of the Brand Account tin transfer ownership to you.

Note that transferring ownership of a Brand Account transfers all the Google services on that account, including the Google+ Page, YouTube channel, Google Photos in addition to Google My Business listing.

3. If you exactly can't access the Google Account that owns your Google+ Page in addition to YouTube channel your options are limited
  • post a novel enquiry inward the Google+ Help community. It's possible someone at that topographic point may have got exactly about other proffer you lot tin elbow grease to recover your Google+ Page. 
  • try the YouTube sign-in troubleshooter for assistance inward recovering access to your YouTube channel

I don't propose an impersonation study lightly. Google+ Page removals are permanent, in addition to the connected YouTube channel volition live on removed every bit well. Only elbow grease that if you lot have got absolutely run out of options.

That's why it's thus of import to build certain you lot are the possessor of your line of piece of work organisation or brand's Google+ Page from the beginning!

Note that at that topographic point may live on other recovery options if you lot have got lost access to a verified Google My Business location. Post inward the official Google My Business assist forum for assistance amongst local line of piece of work organisation listings.

That's why it's thus of import to build certain you lot are the possessor of your line of piece of work organisation or brand's Google+ Page in addition to YouTube channel from the beginning!

Learn to a greater extent than near Brand Accounts for Google+ Pages in addition to YouTube channels

Also check out this playlist to acquire to a greater extent than near creating in addition to managing Google+ Pages in addition to Page-linked channels for your business, scheme or brand.



Thanks to +Kamal Tailor , +Kaleh Kohler, +Jaana Nyström, +The Lady from Uncle and many others for give-and-take in addition to suggestions that went into this post!  

Top photo: "Home marketplace :1941" shared yesteryear Don O'Brien on Flickr nether a CC yesteryear 2.0 license, text added yesteryear me.

Updated 6/24/14 amongst links to the Google My Business assist center
Updated 3/7/15 amongst electrical current "All my channels" screenshots
Updated 1/3/16 amongst updated screenshots in addition to Google My Business dashboard details.
Updated 2/23/17 to alter information near Google My Business dashboard to the Brand Account dashboard, in addition to to reverberate the separation of YouTube from Google+
Updated 3/8/18 to add together video tutorial links.
Updated 3/10/19 to withdraw Google+ links 

Tuesday, March 17, 2020

Create A Novel Youtube Channel Without Google+


Now when y'all practise a novel YouTube channel, the novel channel volition non live on connected to Google+ unless y'all desire to purpose an identity unlike from your master copy Google identity. New YouTube channels purpose the get upward as well as profile photograph from your Google About Me page (aboutme.google.com).

Note: As of the destination of 2016, y'all tin practise a novel YouTube channel for your Business or Brand without Google+. Learn to a greater extent than here: Create a YouTube Channel for your Brand, Business, Organization or Band


Create a novel YouTube channel without Google+ using your Google concern human relationship name


1. Sign inwards to YouTube (www.youtube.com) amongst a Google account. You volition bespeak to practise a Google concern human relationship if y'all don't bring one.

2. Click the iii draw card icon at hand left as well as select My Channel



3. Confirm that the get upward is the ane y'all desire to use.  

  • If y'all alter the name, it volition alter everywhere on Google (for example, Hangouts as well as Maps)
  • You tin all the same purpose merely ane get upward past times entering a stream ( . ) inwards the end get upward field
  • Name changes are limited, as well as thus live on certain to laid the get upward the agency y'all want!
  •  If y'all desire to purpose a unlike get upward than the ane y'all purpose for other Google products (like Gmail as well as Hangouts), pick out the selection to purpose a Business or Other name This volition practise a novel channel connected to a Google+ Page.
4. Click the blueish Create Channel button

Learn more: YouTube Help Center: Create a novel channel

Reasons to practise (or keep) your Google+ Profile


Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Google+ Profile is required for some features:

Create a YouTube channel amongst a "Business or Other Name"

Note: As of the destination of 2016, y'all tin practise a novel YouTube channel for your Business or Brand without Google+. Learn to a greater extent than here: Create a YouTube Channel for your Brand, Business, Organization or Band

If y'all practise a novel YouTube channel amongst a Business or Other Name, your channel volition live on connected to a Google+ Page. 

Reasons to practise a channel connected to a Google+ Page:

Delete your Google+ Profile without affecting your YouTube channel


If y'all bring a YouTube channel connected to your Google+ Profile, y'all tin forthwith delete your Profile without affecting your channel. 
  • your channel volition snuff it on to purpose the get upward as well as profile photograph y'all bring laid at aboutme.google.com
  • deleting your Google+ Profile volition non take your channel's legacy /user/ Custom URL or Google+-based /c/ Custom URL
  • deleting your Google+ Profile volition non delete whatever Google+ Pages the Profile manages (or the Pages' YouTube channels). Manage your Pages at business.google.com/manage/
  • Any post y'all created on Google+ almost ane of your ain videos volition live on deleted from Google+. If it is likewise visible on YouTube, it volition snuff it on to seem on YouTube.
  • Any comment y'all created on YouTube inwards response to a video, which is likewise visible on Google+ equally a Google+ post, volition all the same be on YouTube but volition live on deleted from Google+.
  • Any comment y'all created on Google+ that is forthwith solely visible on YouTube, inwards relation to a post somebody else made almost a YouTube video, volition all the same be on YouTube.
  • Any +1 that y'all added on Google+ that is forthwith solely visible on YouTube equally a like, inwards relation to a post somebody else made almost a YouTube video, volition all the same be on YouTube.
  • Any other posts, replies, comments or +1s relating to a YouTube video that y'all created originally on either Google+ or YouTube but which solely forthwith seem on Google+ volition live on deleted.
Learn more: Google Plus Help Center: Delete your Google+ Profile

What if your channel has never been connected to Google+?

If y'all never connected your channel to Google+, y'all volition bespeak to Confirm your name inwards fellowship to purpose all YouTube features, similar commenting. When y'all confirm your get upward your channel volition purpose your Google concern human relationship get upward as well as profile photograph at aboutme.google.com

1. Sign inwards to YouTube as well as click your channel icon at hand left

2. Click the gear icon to opened upward Settings > Advanced  (www.youtube.com/account_advanced )


3. Click confirm your get upward on YouTube

Note that does hateful y'all volition live on using the same get upward for YouTube equally y'all practise for other Google products as well as services, similar Gmail as well as Hangouts.

4. To purpose a get upward other than your Google Account name, click Connect amongst a Google+ page

Manage Your Google Construct Accounts For Youtube, Google+, In Addition To Photos

Update: When consumer Google+ shuts downward on Apr 2, 2019, all Google+ Pages volition last deleted. This volition non acquit on your YouTube channel or the underlying Brand Account. 

If you lot run a build name, trouble concern name, ring cite or whatever cite other than your personal Google trouble concern human relationship name for YouTube or a Google+ Page, you lot probable accept a Google Brand Account.  Some Google My Business Locations created earlier Oct 2017 may every bit good accept a Brand Account.

You tin contend your Google Brand Accounts in your Google Account Settings, independently from
Google+, YouTube, together with Google My Business. If you'd similar to merely dive in, opened upwardly myaccount.google.com/brandaccounts to acquire started.
Manage your Brand Account on the Details page
Brand Account Owners together with Managers volition accept slightly dissimilar options on the Details page
  • View General Account Info: Brand Account activity, security, together with associated information. (Owners only)
  • Edit Account Info: alter your Brand Account name, profile photo, together with profile information visible on Google+.
  • Manage Permissions: thought Managers together with Owners (Managers together with Owners), add together or take away Managers together with Owners (Owners only)
  • Act every bit the Brand Account: access your Brand Account's YouTube, Google+ or Google Photos accounts 
  • Delete Account: Delete the entire Brand Account, including the associated Google+ Page, YouTube Channel together with Google Photos (Owners only)
If you lot are interested inwards learning how to navigate to the Google Brand Account settings, read on!

Access your Brand Accounts from your Google Account settings

You tin contend all your Brand Accounts from your Google Account settings.

1. Open your Google Account Settings



Anywhere on Google, click your Google trouble concern human relationship profile photograph (or starting fourth dimension initial) at overstep right, together with then click the My Account button.

 That volition open myaccount.google.com

2. Under "Personal Info & Privacy" click "Manage Your Google Activity"



That opens https://myaccount.google.com/privacy#activity

3. Scroll downward to "Google Dashboard" together with click "Go to Google Dashboard"



That opens https://myaccount.google.com/dashboard

4. On your Dashboard click "Brand Accounts" to expand the options, together with then click "Go to Brand Accounts" 


Note: the Brand Accounts listed on the Google Dashboard solely those you lot Own, non those you lot Manage.  Clicking Go to Brand Accounts will exhibit all those you lot Manage as well.

That opens: https://myaccount.google.com/brandaccounts

5. On your "Brand Accounts" page click the Brand Account you lot desire to manage

Both the Brand Accounts you lot Own and Manage are listed.



That volition open: https://myaccount.google.com/brandaccounts/[PageID]/view

The [PageID] is the 21-digit position out at the destination of a Google+ Page's URL:
                             plus.google.com/112021642435135106763

6.. That volition opened upwardly the Brand Account Details for the Brand Account

Owner Options


Manager options
Click View General Account Info  for security, activity, notifications together with other Google trouble concern human relationship settings (Owners only)
Click Manage Permissions to view, add together or take away managers.
Click Edit Account Info to alter the name, profile photograph or other details

Manage the Brand Account for your YouTube channel

If your YouTube channel uses a business, ring or build name, you lot tin easily acquire to the channel's Brand Account to thought together with add together or take away Managers, or edit trouble concern human relationship details including the cite together with profile photograph (which are used every bit your channel cite together with channel icon).

1. Sign inwards to YouTube (www.youtube.com)

2. Make certain you lot are using the right channel identity

You tin switch channel identities yesteryear clicking your channel icon avatar at overstep right, together with then clicking Switch Account,  or yesteryear going to your Google Account's  All My Channels (www.youtube.com/channel_switcher)

3. Open your channel's Settings

Classic YouTube: Click your channel icon at overstep right, together with and then the gear to opened upwardly the Settings (www.youtube.com/account).


New YouTube: Click your channel icon at overstep right, together with then click Settings




4. On your channel's Settings page click Add or take away managers 


5. That volition opened upwardly the Brand Account Details for your channel's account

Notice this Brand Account solely has YouTube together with Photos, non Google+

Click View General Account Info for security, trouble concern human relationship activity, notifications together with other settings
Click Manage Permissions to view, add together or take away managers.
Click Edit Account Info to alter the name, profile photograph (channel icon) or other detail.
Click the Google Photos, Google+ or YouTube icon to navigate to those services

Manage the Brand Account for your Google+ Page

If you lot accept a Google+ Brand Page, amongst or without a YouTube channel, you lot tin access the Page's Brand Account to thought together with add together or take away Managers, or edit trouble concern human relationship details including the cite together with profile photo.

1. Sign inwards to Google+ (plus.google.com)

2. Switch to managing your Google+ Page

You tin switch to your Page identity yesteryear clicking your profile photograph at overstep right, together with then selecting the Google+ Page's Brand Account. If you lot don't run across your Brand Account listed, click All your Brand Accounts to run across the total list.


3. When you lot are managing your Google+ Page, click "Profile" on the left menu



4. On your Page's Profile, click the About button 



You tin every bit good click Edit Profile and together with then Manage Page.

That opens the About Me settings for that Google+ Page

You tin click the Red + Button  to add together information that viewers volition run across when they click About on your Google+ Page Profile.

Note that at that spot does non look to last a means access the Page's Manager settings from this screen.

If you lot desire to add together or take away managers, it's best to start on your Brand Account settings page, rather than on Google+.

Jan 2017: Google+ Page Management removed from Google My Business
March 2018: Updated Google Account together with YouTube navigation instructions together with screenshots.