Movement your YouTube aqueduct to another account

Y'all tin move your channel and its videos over from one account to some other. Note that if your account is a supervised account or a work or school account, y'all cannot motion your channel.

Earlier you kickoff:

YouTube channel is automatically connected to an account. There are two different types of accounts:

Google Account You demand a Google Business relationship to sign in to YouTube. Your channel proper name is automatically the same as the i on your Google Account.
Make Account

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

Learn how to create a Brand Business relationship:

  1. First, check if you already have a Brand Account.
  2. Sign in to YouTube.
  3. Go to your channel listing.
  4. Click Create a aqueduct.
  5. Fill out the details to name the Brand Business relationship and verify your business relationship. Then, click Create. You lot've created your Brand Account.

Move your channel to another Make Business relationship associated with the aforementioned Google Account:

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

    Warning:

    You lot can accidentally delete the incorrect channel. To avert this mistake, check that yous're in the Google Account associated with the channel you lot want to movement.

  4. Click Settings.
  5. Click Advanced settings.
  6. Click Motion aqueduct to a Make Business relationship.

    If you have a custom URL, you'll demand to remove it from your current account, then set upwardly a custom URL on your new account subsequently 72 hours.

  7. Choose the business relationship you want to move to from the listing on your screen. If you lot don't have a listing of accounts, information technology could be for a few reasons:
    • Your Google Account is not the main account owner. Learn more than about how to change channel owners.
    • Other users accept admission to your aqueduct in Studio permissions. To continue, you lot first have to remove these users in Studio. Learn more about how to remove access.
    • Your aqueduct had been using a Brand Account and moved to permissions. To proceed, y'all first need to opt your channel out of Studio permissions.
      • To opt out, select "Opt out of permissions in YouTube Studio" under YouTube Studio'due south Settings and then Permissions.
  8. If the business relationship you cull is already associated with a YouTube channel, click Supercede, then select Delete channel in the box that pops upwards.
    • Of import: Doing so will delete the channel that is already associated with that account. Any content associated with this channel volition be permanently deleted, including videos, comments, messages, playlists, and history.
  9. Check how your channel name will appear afterwards moving, then click Move channel.
    • Reminder: Doing then volition delete any existing channel and the videos already associated with the account that you're moving to.
  10. Annotation: You lot may be asked to enter your password and re-cosign. Learn more near re-authenticating your account.

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

Motility your Brand Account to a different Google Account:

  1. On YouTube, sign in as the owner of the Brand Business relationship.
  2. In the top right, click your contour picture show and then Settings .
  3. Under "Account," select Add or remove manager(s).
  4. Click Manage permissions.
    1. Notation: You may be asked to enter your password and re-authenticate. Learn more than virtually re-authenticating your account.
  5. Choose Invite new users .
  6. Enter the email address of the Google Account you lot would like to move your channel to.
  7. Below their name, choose their function:
    1. Owners can have the most actions, and they control who manages the account. An account must have one main possessor.
  8. Select Invite and then Done.
  9. Accept the email invite sent to the newly added Google Account.
  10. Subsequently vii days, sign in via the new Google Business relationship and return to Manage Permissions.
  11. From the drop-down menu, alter the signed-in account's role to primary owner.
  12. Click Transfer in the box that pops upwardly.

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