How You Can Change Your Custom YouTube URL?

How You Can Change Your Custom YouTube URL?

YouTube offers channels the ability to set a custom URL whenever they’ve reached a moderate set of eligibility requirements.

If you’ve had your channel for some time, chances are it meets all requirements to have its own custom URL, and you can claim one in a few simple steps.

Or on the other hand, if you’ve set a custom URL and want to transform it, there’s a simple way to remove the one you have and claim another one.

YouTube channels are never stayed with their URLs forever. That wasn’t generally the situation, however. For a long time YouTube didn’t allow channels to make changes once they chose a custom URL.

Now, channels can switch their URL up to three times each year. And the process is the same every time.

This article covers both how to choose a custom URL for the first time, and how to change a custom URL that is currently in place.

To start with, how about we take a look at the eligibility requirements.

Custom YouTube URL Eligibility Requirements

To make a custom URL for your YouTube channel your account needs to meet the following requirements:

• Have at least 100 subscribers.
• Be at least 30 days old.
• Have an uploaded profile picture.
• Have uploaded banner image.

These are humble necessities by any gauge, but they do keep new channels from setting custom URLs right away.

If you came here searching for a way to make a URL for a channel that was set up an hour back, that won’t be possible.

Wait at least 30 days, collect at least 100 subscribers, and then proceed onward to the steps in the next section.

There’s one caveat to setting custom URLs, however, which is that they’re not totally custom.

While experiencing the URL selection process YouTube will suggest several available options based on:

• Display name
• YouTube username
• Current vanity URLs
• Linked site name

Probably YouTube does this to keep URLs from being indistinct from the channels they belong to.

You can tailor YouTube’s recommendations by setting your display name to something you’d like your URL to be.

How to Set a Custom YouTube Channel URL

To set a custom URL for your YouTube channel, start by signing into YouTube Studio.

1. From the left navigation menu select Customization, and then select Basic data.
2. Under the Channel URL heading select the option to Set a custom URL for your channel.
3. A box will pop up where you’ll see the customized URL YouTube suggests for you dependent on your channel details.
4. You’ll be given the choice to add additional letters or numbers to additionally customize the URL.
5. Click Confirm and you’re finished.

How to Change a Custom YouTube URL

YouTube channels can switch their custom URL up to 3 times each year.

To change the URL of your YouTube channel, start by signing into YouTube Studio.

1. From the left navigation menu select Customization, and then select Basic info.
2. Under your current custom URL click DELETE.
3. Under About, click your custom URL.
4. Click Remove, and then click Remove again to confirm you want to delete your URL.

Know that you will most likely be unable to set another custom URL immediately after removing an old one. YouTube says it might require a few days for the past URL to deactivate.

When your URL is removed you’ll have the option to claim another one by following similar steps you experienced the first time.

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