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Hi, if you'd like to change your YouTube channel name to something that you'd like, stay tuned
and watch this very short video and I'll show you, exactly, what to do.
Hi, there. David Walsh here, from DavidWalshOnLine.com and in this video I'm going to show you how
to change your YouTube channel name. Now, with a lot of updates have been happening
over the last few months, a lot of settings have been moved. So, in this updated video,
I'm going to show you how you can change your YouTube channel name and, also, what you can
and can't do, from those settings. Here I am, in a brand new YouTube channel.
I've literally just set this up, a minute ago, and I want to set up my channel on here,
and I want to have a different name on my channel.
So, here I am, logged in as Jimmy Banana, but I don't want my name on my channel. Now,
since this is a brand new channel, this is the best time to be able to change my YouTube
name on my YouTube channel. So, I click on, here.
And there are a number of ways I can go in and change my name. I can go in here and click
on 'My Channel' and then it would give me the option to change it there, or if I go
into my 'YouTube Settings', click on 'Create Channel', it would, also, do the same there.
So, what I'm going to do, here, is I'm going to click on this link, here, to 'Use A Business
Or Other Name Click Here'. So, I don't want to use my name, Jimmy Banana, because that
only allows me to have my name, it's going to be first name, last name.
I can't have all one word and I want to have all one word in my name. So, if you just want
to use your name, go ahead and click on 'Ok', and it will go through and set up your channel,
and you will have your name on there. Or if you want a totally different name or
all one word, then you click on 'To Use A Business Name Or Other Name, Click Here'.
So, click on that and it asks you for your channel name, so I'm going to call this JimmyBananaOnLine,
and my category is 'Anything Here', there goes change that to Banana, then I'm going
to click on that, then click on 'Done'. Then it asks you to add a number which I'm
going to do now. I'm going to pause this video, put in my number and then get the text message
through with my verification number. So, I've received the verification code, I've put it
in and clicked on 'Ok' and, now, it has my channel set up.
So, it's coming up here, and now you can see that my name is JimmyBananaOnLine, so that
is my name, there. Now, to change my URL, if I click on my channel
here, we'll see that my URL is all over the place, so, I'm going to go in and change that,
so that I have a name that I want. So, click on here, click on 'YouTube Settings',
click on 'Advanced', here. And then it says, here 'Create Custom URL'.
Now, one thing you need to know here is that once you set up your custom channel URL, it
cannot be changed. So, you get to pick this just once and once only. When you select it,
you cannot change it again. So, I am going to add this as jimmybananaonline; and if you
don't have any errors here, then you're fine. So, this is all clear, click on 'Create Channel
URL'. And there we go. If I go up here and click on my channel, we'll see now, that I
have this channel name, right there. So, I've just changed my YouTube channel name
to JimmyBananaOnLine and I've, also, changed my YouTube channel URL to jimmybananaonline,
as well. Now, if you have a previous channel, that
is, a profile channel with just your name there, what I'm going to do now, is I'm going
to create a channel here. So, I'm going to pick my name.
So, when I have this here, and I want to change my name, I go to 'YouTube Settings' and then
I will change my name here on Google+. So, if I click on this, it will send me to
Google+ and I can change my name on Google+. Click on 'Save'. So, you go to your name and
you hover over it and you'll see here 'Click To Edit Your Name'. Now, the problem with
this is that because it is your profile, it has to be a name.
So, it's got to be a first name and a last name. It can't be all one word or a number
of words that I've had in my Google+ page that I've just created. So, you can change
this to whatever you want. So, Jimmy Bananas, then click, then 'Change Name'.
Now, you can only change this name three times in two years. So, again, like selecting your
channel URL, be very careful with what you pick, because you're only allowed to change
it so many times in two years. And then, when you've got that done, you go
back to your channel, click on refresh, a few times. Now, it may take a while for it
to come through, but, eventually, your name will pop up here.
And again, if you want to change your channel URL, you go to 'YouTube Settings' on the top,
click on 'Advanced', here, and then click on 'Create Custom URL'.
And again, pick a name that hasn't been, already, selected. So, I'm going to go jimmybananapersonal.
So, I'm going to pick that as my channel URL. Click on 'Create URL', go up to the top, click
on 'My Channel' and we'll see that the name is up there now.
So, that's how you change your channel name on your YouTube channel.
Now, if you have an older channel and you want to change it from a profile into a page,
where it says 'Page' up here, what you have to do is, you need to set up a new channel
on your account using Google+, Google+ Page. And then contact Google+ support, YouTube
support, and then tell them that you have a channel that you want to change to a Google+
Page account. Tell them the URL of your Google+ Page, tell
them the URL of your YouTube channel, and then, they will move it over. Unfortunately,
there is no way to manually do this, which was possible before, but that is the only
way that it's possible to do so, now. So, to set up a new account, you go to 'YouTube
Settings', go down here to 'See All My Channels and / or Create A New Account'. Click on 'Create
A New Account Here', then go through the same process as we did before, set up your new
Google+ Page YouTube channel and then tell them the Google+ Page that you want. And to
do so, you just go to your 'New Channel', here, go to Google+, and then this URL here,
is the URL that they will be looking for, to add your YouTube page to.
I know it is a bit all over the place, but that's the way YouTube is right now, and that's
how you've got to do it. So, there you go, that's how you change your
channel name on your YouTube channel. And as I mentioned in the video, if you already
have your custom URL set up, you can't change it.
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