How To Change Your YouTube Channel Name via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

YouTube allows creators to alteration the sanction of their transmission without it affecting the sanction connected their Google account.

Creators tin alteration some their transmission sanction and photograph and the updates volition lone use to YouTube.

Gone are the days erstwhile YouTube creators were required to support the aforesaid sanction crossed each Google services.

Now, you tin usage 1 sanction for your YouTube transmission and different sanction for messages sent from your Gmail account, for example.

This nonfiction volition thatch you, step-by-step, however to alteration your YouTube transmission sanction without the changes pursuing you crossed each of Google.

Changing Your YouTube Channel Name

YouTube creators with some idiosyncratic accounts and marque accounts tin alteration the sanction of their transmission without changing their Google relationship name.

These changes tin beryllium made from either YouTube Studio connected desktop oregon the YouTube mobile app.

Change YouTube Channel Name On Desktop

1. Sign In To YouTube

To alteration the sanction of your YouTube channel, commencement by signing into YouTube.

From there, click connected your illustration photograph successful the apical close country and prime “Your channel” from the drop-down menu.

Screenshot from YouTube.com, January 2022.

2. Customize Channel In YouTube Studio

From your transmission leafage click connected Customize Channel.

This volition instrumentality your channel’s dashboard successful YouTube Studio.

Screenshot from YouTube.com, January 2022.

3. Edit Channel Name

When you’re successful YouTube Studio, prime Basic info from the apical navigation menu.

Then click connected the pencil icon adjacent to your transmission name, which volition let you to edit it.

Screenshot from YouTube.com, January 2022.

4. Save Changes

Save your caller transmission sanction by clicking the Publish fastener successful the apical close corner.

Screenshot from YouTube.com, January 2022.

Change YouTube Channel Name On Mobile

1. Go To Your Channel Page

Open the YouTube mobile app, past pat your illustration picture.

From the driblet down paper prime Your Channel.

Screenshot from YouTube.com, January 2022.

2. Edit Channel Name

Click the pencil icon, and past click the pencil icon again connected the adjacent screen.

From there, benignant successful your caller transmission name.

Screenshot from YouTube.com, January 2022.

3. Save Changes

To prevention your caller transmission name, click the checkmark icon successful the apical close corner.

Screenshot from YouTube.com, January 2022.

An Important Note For Verified YouTube Channels

Creators with verified YouTube channels should beryllium alert that they’ll suffer their checkmark if they alteration the sanction of their channel.

This is apt done to forestall YouTube channels from impersonating different channels.

It would beryllium casual to enactment retired a fake quality report, for example, and marque it look legit if a transmission could alteration their sanction to “CNN” and support their verified checkmark.

However, it’s imaginable for creators to alteration their channel’s sanction and get their checkmark backmost by applying for it again. That whitethorn instrumentality a while, truthful see the drawbacks earlier going up with a sanction change.

How to Change a YouTube Channel’s URL

Changing the sanction of a YouTube transmission does not alteration the channel’s URL. That has to beryllium done by pursuing a abstracted acceptable of steps.

YouTube lets users acceptable a “custom” URL for their channel, which tin beryllium changed up to 3 times per year.

It’s customized successful the consciousness that YouTube volition let creators to take from a enactment of recommended URLs. The recommendations are intimately based connected the channel’s name, arsenic YouTube wants to forestall creators from having perchance misleading URLs.

Here’s a acceptable of step-by-step instructions connected how to alteration a YouTube URL.

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