Move your YouTube channel to another account

You can move your channel and its videos over from 1 account to another. Note that if your business relationship is a supervised account or a work or school business relationship, you cannot move your channel.

Before you start:

YouTube channel is automatically continued to an business relationship. There are two different types of accounts:

Google Business relationship Yous need a Google Account to sign in to YouTube. Your channel name is automatically the same as the i on your Google Account.
Brand Business relationship

A Brand Account is an account that is specifically for your brand. This account is different from your personal Google Business relationship. If a channel is linked to a Brand Account, more than one Google Business relationship can manage information technology.

Learn how to create a Brand Business relationship:

  1. First, check if y'all already have a Make Business relationship.
  2. Sign in to YouTube.
  3. Go to your channel list.
  4. Click Create a channel.
  5. Fill out the details to name the Brand Account and verify your account. Then, click Create. Yous've created your Brand Business relationship.

Move your channel to another Make Account associated with the same Google Account:

  1. Sign in to YouTube.
  2. At the height of your screen, click your profile picture.
  3. If needed, switch accounts to the Google Account associated with the aqueduct you want to motility.

    Warning:

    You tin accidentally delete the wrong aqueduct. To avert this fault, check that you're in the Google Account associated with the channel you desire to move.

  4. Click Settings.
  5. Click Advanced settings.
  6. Click Motion channel to a Make Account.

    If you accept a custom URL, you'll need to remove information technology from your current account, then fix upwardly a custom URL on your new account after 72 hours.

  7. Choose the account y'all want to move to from the list on your screen. If you don't have a list of accounts, it could be for a few reasons:
    • Your Google Account is not the chief business relationship owner. Learn more virtually how to change aqueduct owners.
    • Other users have access to your channel in Studio permissions. To continue, you first take to remove these users in Studio. Learn more about how to remove admission.
    • Your channel had been using a Make Account and moved to permissions. To go on, you first need to opt your aqueduct out of Studio permissions.
      • To opt out, select "Opt out of permissions in YouTube Studio" under YouTube Studio's Settings and then Permissions.
  8. If the account you lot choose is already associated with a YouTube channel, click Replace, then select Delete channel in the box that pops upward.
    • Of import: Doing so volition delete the channel that is already associated with that business relationship. Any content associated with this aqueduct volition be permanently deleted, including videos, comments, letters, playlists, and history.
  9. Check how your aqueduct name will appear after moving, so click Move aqueduct.
    • Reminder: Doing so will delete any existing channel and the videos already associated with the account that you're moving to.
  10. Note: You lot may be asked to enter your password and re-cosign. Learn more about re-authenticating your business relationship.

Note that some content tin can't be moved, such as: all comments made by the channel, sent and received messages, verification badges, and automated filter community settings. A warning message will pop upwards if your channel has this content.

Movement your Make Business relationship to a dissimilar Google Account:

  1. On YouTube, sign in as the possessor of the Brand Business relationship.
  2. In the peak right, click your profile film and then Settings .
  3. Under "Account," select Add or remove manager(due south).
  4. Click Manage permissions.
    1. Note: You may exist asked to enter your password and re-authenticate. Acquire more than about re-authenticating your business relationship.
  5. Choose Invite new users .
  6. Enter the email accost of the Google Account you lot would similar to move your channel to.
  7. Below their proper name, choose their function:
    1. Owners can take the nigh deportment, and they control who manages the business relationship. An account must have 1 principal owner.
  8. Select Invite and then Done.
  9. Take the e-mail invite sent to the newly added Google Account.
  10. Subsequently vii days, sign in via the new Google Account and return to Manage Permissions.
  11. From the drop-down menu, change the signed-in business relationship's role to primary owner.
  12. Click Transfer in the box that pops upwardly.

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