Manage YouTube channels

Yous may run into new mentions of a "Brand Account" in your YouTube channel or run across a new business relationship in your account switcher. This is because your aqueduct was continued to a Brand Account during a recent YouTube update. Acquire more than most channels migrated to Make Accounts.

You can set upwards your YouTube channels to be managed past merely yous or by multiple people. You can cull from one of the following options for a YouTube channel:

  • Connect information technology to your personal Google Account: The channel volition use your Google Account proper name and photo.
  • Connect it to a Brand Account: The YouTube channel tin can use a different proper name than the 1 you use on your Google Account.

Use your Google Account

A Google Account is specific to just ane person, so information technology uses one proper name and identity across all Google services, including on any YouTube channel that is connected.

If yous connect your YouTube channel to your Google Business relationship:

  • Who can manage the channel: Just yous tin access the YouTube aqueduct and you lot have to use your Google Account.
  • What proper name and photo prove: The YouTube aqueduct uses the same name and photo every bit your Google Account (and rest of your Google services, like Gmail or Google Docs).

Use a Brand Account

A YouTube channel connected to a Brand Account tin exist shared beyond multiple accounts.

If you connect your YouTube channel to a Brand Account:

  • Who tin can manage and own the aqueduct: Multiple Google Accounts can manage and own a Brand Account, and any of those managers and owners tin can also access the YouTube aqueduct connected to the Brand Account. If you add together other owners to the aqueduct, they can take full actions on it, including deleting the aqueduct and removing other owners.
  • What name and photo show: The YouTube channel can have a different proper noun and photo from your Google Account and any manager Google Accounts.

Apply Brand Accounts managed by your Google Business relationship

You can employ 1 Google Business relationship to manage multiple Brand Accounts connected to YouTube channels.

If you connect your YouTube aqueduct to a Brand Business relationship that'due south managed only by your Google Account:

  • Who can manage the channel: If you lot accept multiple YouTube channels continued to Brand Accounts, you can manage them all through one Google Account without signing out. Learn how to switch betwixt channels you manage.
  • What name and photo testify: The YouTube channel can take a different name and photo from your Google Account and whatsoever of the Brand Accounts information technology manages.

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