Move your YouTube channel to another business relationship

You lot tin can move your aqueduct and its videos over from one account to some other. Notation that if your account is a supervised account or a piece of work or school account, yous cannot move your aqueduct.

Before you outset:

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

Google Account You need a Google Account to sign in to YouTube. Your aqueduct name is automatically the same as the 1 on your Google Account.
Brand Account

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

Learn how to create a Brand Account:

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

Motility your channel to another Brand Account associated with the same Google Account:

  1. Sign in to YouTube.
  2. At the height of your screen, click your profile pic.
  3. If needed, switch accounts to the Google Account associated with the channel yous want to move.

    Warning:

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

  4. Click Settings.
  5. Click Avant-garde settings.
  6. Click Move channel to a Make Business relationship.

    If you take a custom URL, yous'll demand to remove it from your current business relationship, so set up a custom URL on your new account after 72 hours.

  7. Cull the account yous want to move to from the list on your screen. If you don't have a list of accounts, it could exist for a few reasons:
    • Your Google Account is not the primary business relationship owner. Learn more about how to change channel owners.
    • Other users accept admission to your channel in Studio permissions. To continue, you first accept to remove these users in Studio. Acquire more almost how to remove admission.
    • Your channel had been using a Make Account and moved to permissions. To go along, you starting time demand to opt your channel 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 choose is already associated with a YouTube channel, click Replace, so select Delete channel in the box that pops up.
    • Of import: Doing so will delete the channel that is already associated with that account. Any content associated with this channel will be permanently deleted, including videos, comments, letters, playlists, and history.
  9. Check how your channel name volition appear later on moving, then click Move channel.
    • Reminder: Doing so will delete any existing channel and the videos already associated with the business relationship that you're moving to.
  10. Note: Y'all may be asked to enter your password and re-authenticate. Learn more nearly re-authenticating your account.

Note that some content can't exist moved, such equally: all comments made by the aqueduct, sent and received messages, verification badges, and automatic filter community settings. A warning message will popular up if your channel has this content.

Move your Make Account to a different Google Account:

  1. On YouTube, sign in equally the owner of the Brand Business relationship.
  2. In the top right, click your profile picture and then Settings .
  3. Under "Account," select Add together or remove director(s).
  4. Click Manage permissions.
    1. Note: You may be asked to enter your password and re-authenticate. Learn more about re-authenticating your account.
  5. Choose Invite new users .
  6. Enter the email address of the Google Account y'all would similar to move your channel to.
  7. Beneath their proper noun, choose their role:
    1. Owners can take the nigh actions, and they control who manages the business relationship. An account must have ane main owner.
  8. Select Invite and then Washed.
  9. Accept the email invite sent to the newly added Google Account.
  10. Afterwards 7 days, sign in via the new Google Account and return to Manage Permissions.
  11. From the drop-down menu, modify the signed-in business relationship's role to primary owner.
  12. Click Transfer in the box that pops up.

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