HOW TO CHANGE YOUTUBE CHANNEL NAME Now some of you may have started a YouTube channel years ago and it's time
for you to change the name. That's what we talk about today, here we go!
Hello and welcome back to another video. Now if you're new around here and you're
looking to start your YouTube channel, grow your YouTube channel or push your
brand out there onto the second largest search engine on the Internet.
Click subscribe, START CREATING. Now a question I've had a fair bit recently is...
I started my youtube channel three four years ago and I was young and I was
stupid and I named it something weird. How do I change the username itself? Bear
in mind that the channel URL and the username are two completely different
things. There's a video up here for that - How To Get A Custom Channel URL.
I'm going to deep dive into how you can change the username and what it says
underneath your video today. Now before I start that I want to know, have you
renamed your channel? would you like to rename your channel? or what is the
reason your channel is named the way is? Mine for example is Alan Spicer because
that's me and it's YouTube tricks and tips next to my name because I do
YouTube tricks and tips. The Mr Hairy Brit channel because I'm a Mister, I am
Hairy, and I am British. But let me know what you are. Please leave a comment down
below. Well over time you may have started a YouTube channel and you threw
up there whatever username that came up, or whatever email address that you
happen to go with it. For example if your boogie2988 I believe that was pretty
much he threw it up there and that that was his MSM handle at the time. Philip
Defranco used sxephil because back then he was straight edge and he was Phillip, right.
Amy Schmittauer aka Amy Landino started with super savvy sexy social, thing.
That's because that was her brand and that's how she was pushing her brand she
recently changed her name AmyTV because she got married and she's rebranding her
channel so if she changed her channel name to make it look more professional.
Or keeping in brand. It's something that we should learn how to do. Now it's quite
simple first of all you sign in to your YouTube account. Most of us are already
signed in to our YouTube accounts, I know that I'm pretty much always on YouTube.
So that's not a problem that's quite an easy step. Then in the top right hand
corner where your little avatar happens to be click on that and it drops
down and you'll be able to see the settings or the creator studio. And then
settings. Now this pulls up this page which is your avatar and your advanced
settings. You'll notice there was a little one a little link that says
"Edit on Google". Now because of the way that Google Plus was integrated into
YouTube ages ago you effectively associated a YouTube
channel with the Google+ accounts and that's why you can effectively directly
share your videos straight to Google+ or to Google right so it's kind of an old
remnant. But the name of your Google+ account or you Google Plus a profile is
the name of that YouTube channel now. Once again not to confuse you this is
the name that appears underneath your videos that links to your channel it is
not your channel URL. If you're changing your channel URL to a custom channel url or if you're starting
your own custom channel URL have a look at the video here. If you just want to
change the name then change the name to whatever you wish in that little text
box. Now warning, it is not instant it does take a little while. In fact in some
cases it - it took around about two days to like show up on not only the site but
show up and things like social blade and vidstatsX and stuff like that. You can
also change your avatar the little picture that's in that corner as well
through the same process. Now what's the advantage of changing your name? Well you
can update a brand you can put little comments next to your name or if you're
promoting a certain thing. Maybe you can add next to it revamp or "going live
every Monday" or the Philip DeFranco show used to have the "Philip DeFranco show
every Monday Friday Wednesday". I personally when starting this channel
deliberately had "Alan Spicer - YouTube Tricks and Tips" next to it so when you'd
found me in a comment section you know that I am Alan Spicer. Which as a new
youtuber you don't care, but you know that I do YouTube tricks and tips. It
worked really well for the Mr Hairy Brit brand when it was
MrHairyBrit #NSFW #News #Vlogs that kind of thing.
Since then I've removed those hashtags alongside Mr Hairy Brit because people
got used to who I was in my brand. Once again, more importantly even, no
matter how long that username happens to be it doesn't become your channel URL. So
Mr Hairy Brit was youtube.com/mrhairybrit and then that was it.
And on this one it's youtube.com/AlanSpicer not YouTube Tricks and Tips afterwards.
So it still keeps it clean and it still keeps it relevant and branded. So that's
How To Change Your Channel Name or YouTube Channel Username on YouTube. For more tricks
and tips there's a free PDF up here and in the description down below.
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