How To Change Your Channel Name On YouTube

Creating a custom business name and URL for your YouTube channel helps with branding and makes it easy to remember rather than using a bunch of letters in your URL.

Here are the steps to change your YouTube channel name:

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I created a channel called “test” however the URL for that channel is very difficult to remember because it contains a bunch of letters.

• To change that my channel name I click on the profile picture
• Click on YouTube settings and under account information
• Click on “Advanced”
• Under channel settings you can see my channel URL is a long URL that contains many letters.
• To change that to a business name I click “create custom channel URL”
• Put your business name in the create custom channel URL box.

Keep in mind that once you’ve set your custom channel URL it can’t be changed.

I click on “create custom channel URL” and it says that the channel URL that I’ve selected is not available so let’s try a different name so I put in drostvideoconsulting

Click “create create channel URL” and here it says “you have created a custom channel URL”. Your new channel is…and here you can see my business name “drostvideoconsulting”

Under account information it says the name of the channel is still “test” so I want to change that on Google+ so click “Edit on Google+”

Here you can edit your name of your channel on Google Plus

Click “Save”

Now the name of your Google+ page is the same as your YouTube channel

Let’s check the name of the channel

So I click on Profile

Click on the YouTube settings cog and you will see drostvideoconsulting.

That’s it!

Now you know how to change the name of your channel on YouTube and Google Plus.

Here are the new eligibility requirements to get
a custom URL for your YouTube Channel:

• Your account needs to be in good standing
• 500 or more subscribers
• Channel is at least 30 days old
• Channel has uploaded a photo for the channel icon
• Channel has uploaded channel art

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