-On this week's YouTube Q&A, I'm going
to answer a question that a lot of you guys asked,
and that is, how do I combine multiple YouTube
accounts into just one?
That's coming up.
Hey, guys.
My name is Tim Schmoyer.
Welcome to another YouTube Q&A Thursday
where every week, I just answer some
of your questions about YouTube and the stuff
that you guys are doing here.
I am in a little different environment right now.
I'm on the road, on the way to VidCon, so thank you
for putting up a little different quality
and everything.
But I still want to answer your question
and I still think it'll be just as good.
A question I get a lot is, Tim, I
want to combine two of my YouTube channels together
to be under one account.
I have my first YouTube channel and my second YouTube channel
and they're both tied to different Gmail addresses.
I actually just one them and other channels
to all be under one Google account, under one Gmail
address, rather than having to log
in and out of all these separate things.
And that has recently become possible,
and I'm going to try my best to do this
in a way that makes sense on this white board
here so that you guys can understand exactly how this
works, so that you understand what's happening.
And then we go in and actually show you how to do it,
it'll make sense.
So let's think of it like we have
these three categories here.
And over here is your Google account, which
is going to have your Gmail, it's
going to have Blogger, Analytics,
and of course, YouTube.
Everything else is right under there,
and this is going to be your first account.
Then you have the second account over here, which is also
a Google account, and again, it has Gmail,
but you probably don't use this account
for much more than anything else other than YouTube,
so you're just going to have YouTube here.
And if you have other things attached to it, that's fine.
Now, there's a separate category of Google accounts that has
recently been added, and that is called a Google+ page,
and they can do some things differently that these other
accounts can't do.
So the way it works is you can actually have your Google+
personal account over here, which is going to be
your personal profile, and then from that,
you can create multiple Google+ pages under each of these.
But the cool thing now is that Google+ pages can now manage
YouTube accounts.
So what you can do is take your YouTube account right here,
and you can move it to be right over here
and make it attached to this page right above it.
Effectively, what you're doing is you're removing it from over
here, and you're saying instead, I want it to be connected
to this Google+ page.
And then together, these two become the same thing.
I hope this is making sense here for you guys.
So that's one thing, and so now your YouTube account is only
connected to your Google+ page.
And the cool thing is the more pages
you have, you can have a YouTube account connected to each one.
So you can have a YouTube account connected here,
you can have a YouTube account connected here.
So now this one Google account is now managing three YouTube
channels, and thus three Google+ pages.
So what you really want to do is you want to say, how can I
get this second YouTube account, how can I get that over here
into a page?
So the way it works, you can create a Google+ personal
account here, and then you would use that to create a Google+
page.
And then what you'd do is this would be connected to that,
and then again, same thing is I just did on the other side.
This account, you're going to now connect
that YouTube account to this page here.
And so then it is no longer connected to this right here.
It's just now connected to that page which your Google+ account
manages as the owner.
This is the owner, just like this
is the owner, of those pages.
So this is kind of its own thing.
So what you can do is you have one owner of the Google+ page,
but you have multiple managers.
So what you could do, then, is on your first Google account,
you take this Google+ account and you make it a manager
of this page right here.
So now you have one owner, and you have one manager--
hopefully, you can read that-- of the same Google+ page,
and thus both of them can access and manage the YouTube account
that's associated with that page as well.
So eventually what you want to do,
though, is you actually want to get rid of this account
completely.
So you can't make your primary Google account here,
you can't make that the owner right away.
You have to wait a certain number of days.
I can't remember if it's 30 days or 45 days
or something like that.
But after that number of days is expired and passed,
then what you can do is this one can become the owner,
and this one becomes the manager.
And after it becomes the manager and your first account is now
successfully being made the owner of that Google+ page,
and thus also that channel, you can come back and you can erase
this whole thing if you'd like, and you no longer need anything
over here on this account.
And now you've successfully transferred
that original YouTube account-- let me take a different color,
make it easier for you.
This YouTube account right here that used to be over here,
remember?
It got transferred to this page, and now this account,
Google+ became a manager.
Later, we shifted to be the owner,
we made this page the manager, and then
we just deleted the whole thing.
Blah, blah, blah, blah.
It's all gone.
And now that YouTube account is now successfully tied
to the first Google+ page and the Google+ personal account,
and thus that Gmail account.
Hope that made sense.
Let me show you guys now exactly what you click on
and everything to make this happen.
So this is my channel right here on my desktop,
and this is already connected to a Google+ page,
which you can see if I click right here.
See this little funky thing?
I want to show you what I mean by this having
its very own login setting, kind of being
its own separate account.
So if I click here on Settings and open this tab here,
it's going to open up the settings for my Google+ page.
So I'm in Google+ right now.
I can scroll down a little bit until I
get to right here, Third Party Tools.
You'll see Your page's username is-- and then it'll
have your channel name, dash, a bunch of numbers,
@pages.plusgoogle.com.
That's not an actual email address.
That's just the login name you will use if you wanted to log
into a party app, such as the Google+ mobile app,
or a lot of third party plug-ins for Google+ require that you
log in.
And here, you would set up a password.
So now you have your username and password set up just
for your Google+ page that makes it function like its own
identity right here.
So just wanted to show you guys that because once
you have your page, you'll need that,
but that's not exactly what we're talking about here.
So I'm just going to close this tab, go back here.
Now this one, like I said, is already connected to a page,
and I have multiple managers of it here.
I've got this Managers thing right here, and I can show you,
I'm the owner, and then I have two other people
who are managing this account.
These are actual Google accounts, Gmail accounts,
that are managing this Google+ page,
and thus also my YouTube channel right here.
So I'm going to show you a different channel I have.
If you go here, I'm going to go to Switch Accounts,
and these are all of the different email addresses,
and here's the YouTube channels.
You can also see all my channels right here at the bottom
if you click on that.
And you have this button, where you
can create a new YouTube channel.
And you can create as many of those as you would like,
and they would all show up just right here.
So you can see I have a couple.
This is one I'm going to show you as a demonstration.
I'm not actually going to go through the whole process,
because I don't want to link this to anything,
but I just want to show you what it looks like.
So here, now I'm switched to this channel,
and I'm going to go here to Settings.
And under the Channel Settings right here under Overview,
I can link this account with Google+.
And if I click it, it'll ask me if I want to link it actually
to my personal account on Google+,
and that's not really what I'm going to do
because if it's linked to my personal account,
I can't really transfer it.
Let's presume that this is my second account and this account
right here, the godrox one, is one
that I want to transfer to my primary account.
Well, don't do it this way.
It's not going to work.
So I'm going to skip out of that.
I want to use different names, actually, here.
So this Advanced, that's the one you want to click on.
Click on right here, and then this right here,
Connect to a Google+ Page.
So again, this is my second account
that I want to transfer over to another account.
I would come here on this second account,
click Connect with a Google+ Page,
because remember then I can connect my primary YouTube
account with this Google+ page.
Both of these can share it.
And then after two weeks-- I looked it up-- after two weeks,
then I can transfer ownership of this page I'm
about to create for this channel to my primary YouTube thing.
So it's giving me a couple options here.
It says, Tim, you've got a couple pages here
that aren't yet linked with a YouTube account.
Which one would you like to use?
I could use my name.
This is probably what I'm going to do.
I'm going to create a new one right here.
I'm not actually going to do it.
Or if you've already created that page on Google+ under this
account, you can link it right here, select it here.
But you can just enter a name, call this My Family Channel.
Whatever you call it, just know that that will be the public
page on Google+ for your YouTube account.
And then you go through, agree to the terms, and click Next
and go through it.
I'm not going to do it because I actually
don't want to right now, but that's how this would work.
And then after you've created that page and your YouTube
account is now successfully connected with that Google+
page, it will no longer be connected to your Google
account.
So let me give you an example.
So this right here, this account is my Google account
that my Video Creators channel used to be connected to,
but it's not anymore.
See, if I go to My Channel now, it'll say, hey, use YouTube.
It'll ask me if I want to create a new channel because my Video
Creators channel is no longer connected
to this email address.
It's now standing alone as its own Google+ page and its own
YouTube channel right here.
So let's assume now that this Video Creators page is
the Google+ page I just created that I've tied my second
YouTube channel to.
And so now what I need to do is I need to go get that primary
Google account and connect it to that page as a manager so that
both my second account and my first account are now tied
to the same Google+ page, and thus the same YouTube account.
So to do that, I actually need to use Google+ as the owner
of that page.
And right now, this is the owner of that Video Creators page.
So what I'm going to do is I'm going to go down to that page
right here as the owner of that page,
and over here to the side, click on Settings,
and then go click on Managers right here.
And here is that button, I can add a manager.
So what I'm going to do, is that I can either
add the name, as you saw here, or the email address
of my primary account.
So I'm on this page managing it as my secondary YouTube
account.
I want to put in the email address of the Google account
that I want to eventually transfer my YouTube channel to,
which would be my primary Google account.
So I would just type that in there,
and then it will show up here as a manager.
Your first page, that first account,
will get a notification, and it will
have to go approve, yes, I do want
to be a manager of this page.
And then after they approve it and they say, yes, I
do want to be manager, again, they'll all show up right here.
You can add multiple managers.
And then after two weeks, see what I can do as a manager
here.
Let's say Ronnie Bincer is my first account.
I can go here, and I can say, transfer ownership
to Ronnie Bincer.
And what that will do is that will make him owner.
It will make my account right here a manager.
And then after he says successfully becomes manager,
my second account can then come here
and leave the page completely.
And now the page will be completely transferred
to Ronnie Bincer in this case, or in your case,
your primary Google account/YouTube channel.
And the way you would then access it
after it's transferred is just the way I showed you here.
Just go to YouTube.com/whatever, and then it'll be up here.
You can just go to Switch Account,
and all the accounts you have tied to your channel
will be right here, and also under All Channels.
I've logged out now from the other two,
but they all show up right here.
I hope that makes sense.
I know it's a bit confusing, and there's
a lot of different things to consider
and click on and keep track of.
But if you have any questions while you're
going through this, comment below,
and I'll do my best to help you guys out.
Also, if any of you guys have done this before
and have some tips and ideas and things that have worked well
for you in this whole transferring process,
also comment with that below as well.
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