Hello everyone, this is your quirky, but yet adorable, YouTube expert, Derral Eves.
Ok you thought it was going to be really easy to delete your YouTube channel but with all
the recent changes to YouTube, YouTube's moved everything around.
Not to speak of the Google+ Integration, this can be really confusing and really frustrating.
Now here's the thing, there's actually different ways to delete your YouTube channel based
on the factors that you set up your account.
So if it's a stand alone account you do it one way, if it's tied to a Google+ Profile
you do it another way and if it's tied to a Google+ Page you do it another way.
Rest assured I will take away all the pain and in this video I'm going to show you three
different ways to delete your YouTube channel forever.
Let's take a look!
Ok, the first one that I'm going to show you us actually a YouTube channel that's not connected
to Google+.
Now to see if it's not connected to Google+ there's two ways to do it, you click on the
upper right-hand corner and you won't see any Google+ settings.
And to delete this account what we need to do is click on settings here and once we come
to this portion of it you're going to see your account information and so on and so
forth.
And there's going to be a little Advanced link right here so let's go ahead and click
that.
Or you can go to YouTube.com/account_advanced and you're going to see this Delete Channel
button right here.
All you need to do is go ahead and click Delete Channel and basically it's going to make you
re-login, go ahead and put the password in, re-login.
It's going to say hey, are you really sure you want to delete this YouTube account because
it's not coming back, let's go ahead and click the delete button down here.
And that channel is now gone.
Now, if you do not see a delete button, don't freak out I'll show you another way how to
do this.
Alright, so now what I'm going to do is actually show you how to delete a YouTube channel that's
attached to a Google+ Profile.
So to do this let's go ahead and click at the top and some of you are actually going
to see it like this, and I'm going to show you that it's actually connected to a profile
and I'll show you another way that most of you will actually see it.
So let's go ahead and click on Settings again.
And notice here that is says Edit on Google+, if it says that even if you clicked on Advanced
there's not going to be a delete button here.
You actually are connected to a Google+ Profile, so all you need to do is click on Edit on
Google+.
And basically what it's going to do is take you to Google+, we'll go ahead and not want
to go on a tour, this means that you haven't actually set up the full profile, but YouTube's
actually made that for you.
Let's go ahead and click off on and head back to YouTube.
Now that we're back to YouTube what we're going to do is click here at the top and now
you're able to see that there's Google information, there's links along with your YouTube information.
So the first thing that we need to do is to make sure that there's only one YouTube channel
that's actually connected to this because if you delete it it's going to delete everything.
And so we come over here to switch account, click on this and you're able to see that
there's only one channel that's associated with YouTube.
If you see multiple channels that are here it's actually going to show up and you'll
see multiple channels.
So let's go ahead, go ahead and delete that channel that's connected to your Google+ Profile.
To do this we come over to settings and what you want to do is come all the way down to
the bottom and you're going to see Disable Google+, Delete your entire Google+ Profile,
let's go ahead and click here.
Now by doing this you've got to read through all the information it's going to delete all
your associations, all your subscribers, all the people that are in your circle, but we're
good with that since this is just a test account.
And what we're going to do is click Remove Selected Services.
Now keep in mind when you delete all this stuff it still keeps your gmail account and
you have a Google account, but it's just disassociated with Google+ and Google+ Pages, YouTube and
so on.
So let's go ahead and hit Remove Services.
Ok you're successfully deleted that YouTube channel that's connected to that Google+ Profile,
however your gmail account is not deleted.
Ok the final way is actually Delete a YouTube channel that's connected to a Google+ Page.
Now to do this click here at the top, come down to Switch Account, so we need to switch
to the account that we're actually going to delete, let's go ahead and click this.
And then once we're logged in as that user, or that specific YouTube channel, we need
to come down to YouTube Settings.
And once we're here we'll come and click on Advanced and hit Delete.
And it's going to ask you to login again, so we'll put in the password.
And it's going to say hey are you sure you want to delete this?
We're going to hit yes and now that YouTube channel is now gone.
Ok now you want to be really careful when you actually delete your YouTube channel.
I actually had someone contact me that accidentally deleted their YouTube channel with 20,000
subscribers.
Ouch!
That really hurts, you really don't want to go through that much pain.
Now if your interested in learning all the in's and out's of YouTube just go ahead and
subscribe to my channel.
Now you want to wait, don't do it from the channel that you're actually deleting that
would be really awkward.
You know, I get a subscriber and I'm super happy and then you delete your channel and
I lose a subscriber and then I'd be really sad.
So just go ahead and use your other channel or click over here on this video to show you
how to create a YouTube channel and then you can hit subscribe.
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