Transferring a YouTube channel was not possible after 2009. But now we can easily transfer YouTube channel to another Google Account. This is now possible with a new Google+ Page and YouTube feature. Now in a Google account we can have more than one account and a Google+ page can have multiple Managers. And this trick is based on the combination of these two features.
Yet, Transferring YouTube account is not official but yes we can do this. It’s a great news for users having multiple YouTube channels. Now they will not have to maintain multiple Google Accounts just for YouTube channel or any specific Google Products.
Lets get started and discuss how to transfer a YouTube channel to another account or even change the ownership of a YouTube Channel.
Transfer YouTube Channel to another Google Account
Step 1: Go to YouTube Advanced Setting page of your Channel (which you want to transfer). Here you will find a new button titled “Connect with a Google+ Page”. Click on the button. A new window will appear asking to keep username or choose a better one.
Choose the first option to “keep your username”, accept the terms and condition and click “next”. Don’t worry if you get an error page but check if a new Google+ page has been created.
Step 2: Now go to the newly created Google Plus page and Add a new Manager. Invite a manager by sending email. (This user will be your new YouTube channel owner at the end of the tutorial)
Step 3: At this step you or the new manager will need to verify his email id and accept invitation to be a manager. Just check email and click on “Be a Manager” button.
Step 4: Now go to Google plus page and change the privilege from “Manager” to “Owner”. You will find this page on “Managers” Tab. Also, there might be a 2 week wait time to complete the step four. If you find such message then come after 14 days and transfer the ownership of the YouTube channel.
Tested on NetRival YouTube channel. At that time there was no 14 days wait time. After a few hours when I tried to move BlogSynthesis youtube channel, it was there.
Additional tips after transferring YouTube channel:
1. If you transfer the ownership then the old Google Account user will become a manager at YouTube and the Google+ page. To completely remove accessing youtube dashboard remove ask the new owner (or yourself) to remove old account from manager. If you will do so, Old account will be completely removed from the youtube channel.
2. If you already have a Google Plus page, then youtube channel can be transferred in reverse order of the tutorial. i.e.
- Go to Google+ settings page and invite a manager (YouTube account holder email).
- After accepting invitation the youtube account holder will be able to link YouTube channel and Google+ page.
- After successful linking remove the manager from Google+ Page. (Following this reverse tutorial I transferred BlogSynthesis YouTube channel)
3. Be careful while inviting a manager to Google+ page.
If you got any problem then leave a comment here or on video tutorial at youtube. Don’t forget to share on twitter,Google+ or Facebook. if you liked the tutorial.
Alternate way:
There is a possibility to some changes in the process as many of you have reported on the video comment or here on the blog. Well, as i said earlier, Google do not allow to transfer youtube channel officially but there is a loophole. That’s why the above guide and video worked. Due to the changes it might be possible that the above guide is not working for you.
However there is an alternate way to transfer the youtube channel: If you are forced to create a Google+ page with your youtube account. Then go ahead and create one. (For some people Google has already created one.) After sometime (or instantly) you will be able to add a manager or administrator to the Google+ page. Don’t forget here we are talking about the page, not the channel.
Also, Many people asked me about the video, subscribers and stats? Will everything be lost? The answer is “NO”. There will be no changes in your videos, stats or subscriber. I will be completely safe with the youtube channel.
And yes, This trick will work until Google patches the hole. So it will be better to hurry.
Aisa says
September 16, 2013 at 10:54 amI did all this and it didn’t work. The page and youtube channel are connected but the email address is still the old one. I have to go to the old email address to get to the youtube channel or page but the emails go to the new email address. Still just a whole bunch of crap based on them forcing full google accounts and not letting us choose what we want to link to what. Ugh.
Aneesha Mehra says
September 17, 2013 at 2:20 pmHi, my friend created a you tube account in 2008 to post some videos for me, and she said that when the merger occurred she was forced to make her gmail address the You Tube email address, but now I want ownership of the you tube channel, and do not want to loose the history of view etc. Is there a way to de-link the you tube account from her email address and link it to my gmail email address and not loose any history on the channel?
Peter says
September 29, 2013 at 4:46 pmManage channels linked to Google+ pages
https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/3046356
Jayme LaFrance says
October 15, 2013 at 7:52 pmI followed these steps to transfer ownership of a YouTube channel to a different account. I made the account I want to be owner a manager. The option to make it the owner did not appear so I waited 17 days and the option to make this account the owner is still not an option. What can I do?
Henry says
November 27, 2013 at 1:28 amI have this issue as well…
Might just delete all google+ pages and start over/ try again.
Henry says
November 27, 2013 at 1:42 amactually I take that back, it’s there now!!
Got confused…
make sure you’re logged into your old account and go to managers.
George says
October 20, 2013 at 3:06 pmThank you Anand for your great information and contribution. This topic fulfilled by your good resource. I am keep watching your blog.
Carlo De Luca says
October 31, 2013 at 7:21 pmHi My friend.
Is there a way to put my youtube videos inside my personal profile?
I don’t want to use it as a “Page”.
Thanks.
Jenna says
November 2, 2013 at 12:32 amWill doing this cause the videos to start over from 0 views? I need to transfer a few videos from a personal google/YouTube account to a google+ YouTube page, without loosing views. Will your method accomplish this?
Karin says
November 24, 2013 at 7:31 pmJenna: did you find a way? That is exactly what I need as well. I’ve been following all the steps above and now need to wait two weeks. But I have the feeling that my “personal” YT videos will not yet be transferred to the correct “organisational” gmail/G+ account.
g+ says
December 1, 2013 at 7:47 ami ”accidentally” transfered my you tube channel(which was a hotmail account) to a google + account , and now all the new uploads of the channel to which i have subscribed to , appear on the google + account , which is very innappropiate for me as in this way i have to manage 2 accounts for checking my emails ;i.e; google + account and hotmail account – now if i delete my google + account , my you tube channel will get deleted which i do not want to happen . Is there any way i can get all the mails to my previous ORIGINAL hotmail account and not in google + account ?
please , email me for any answer at :
[email protected]
J Michael says
December 27, 2013 at 7:19 pm. I have 2 G+ page accounts assigned to a new YT Channel and I only want one (they both even have the same name). I 1st Created a G+ page and then created the YT channel and I’m afraid it created a new G+ page to match it….even though I thought I assigned it to the already created G+ page. So how can I delete one of the G+ Pages when they both say I can’t delete because they’re already linked to a YT Channel? Also, only one G+ page shows the video – not both? Thanks
Divyam says
January 13, 2014 at 5:13 amhi!
thanks i did all the steps and transferred ownership to new google account
now can i delete my old google account ???…
will it delete my youtube channel???
Divyam says
January 13, 2014 at 5:28 ami deleted my old account
and my youtube channel is linked to new google account.!!!!.. 🙂
Sarah says
January 29, 2014 at 11:29 pmI’m not seeing the “Connect with a Google+ Page” as an option in my advanced settings. The problem is, my company YouTube channel is linked with an unused G+ account (the only reason I think it exists is because it has the same name as the YouTube channel so we were forced to create it a long time ago), and we want to change the linked G+ to our actual company G+ page…which has a DIFFERENT username. Any thoughts here? I literally can’t see any option in the YouTube settings to do anything here..
Julien Pierre says
March 19, 2014 at 2:30 amThe button to “Connect channel with google+” does not show in my “advanced settings”.
It just shows :
Advanced
Account information
Youtube user id
Youtube channel id
Authorized sites to your google account
Sign out of all Youtube sessions
Thomas says
July 8, 2014 at 10:03 amThen Google maybe already connected it.
mathew says
February 4, 2014 at 7:11 amhw do i move a video from one account to anotehr in youtube
Subash says
February 6, 2014 at 6:58 amThank you very much for this tutorial. I didn’t face any problem while I transfer my YouTube channel to another account.
Akshat says
March 16, 2014 at 10:21 amMy Youtube account’s ‘Advance settings’ don’t have an option of linking it to a page.
sandra walters says
April 3, 2014 at 11:19 pmIt was good-except there is no option to change from manager to owner. Will this option appear?
Marie says
April 5, 2014 at 6:40 pmIs there another way to do this? because unfortunately this is not possible anymore this way 🙁
Ryan says
April 7, 2014 at 3:31 pmThe Loophole has been closed folks, if anyone or i find a way round this post here please 😉
Jesse says
April 30, 2014 at 8:37 pmI think this may still work.
I went through the associated Google+ page and added a manager (a user from my company’s Google Apps account). When I click on the newly added manager, I can see the dropdown to “Change owner” to the new user. When I click on it, though, I get the notifcation about ‘two weeks’.
So, I’ll check back in two weeks and see if it actually lets me change the owner when I hit the button.
Jesse
Jesse says
May 16, 2014 at 6:47 pmConfirmed.
As of 5/16/14, there was a dropdown menu for re-assigning ownership. I had to wait two weeks. But it appears to be working fine so far.
Jesse
sandra says
May 6, 2014 at 6:23 amI can’t see a change ownership drop down at all and it has been more than 2 weeks since I added a manager. Managing it is good but wanted to clean up my multiple page entries into one.
Renae says
July 21, 2014 at 4:44 pmI think they patched this 🙁 I transferred ownership of the Google + page but the youtube page is still on the other email account.
Anand Kumar says
July 22, 2014 at 3:51 pmTransferring YouTube channel is still possible but the steps are different now. Although the concept is still same.
Link YouTube to a Google+ channel >> Add a new Google Plus PAGE Admin >> Remove the OLD admin from Google+ page. Isn’t that works for you?
BonsQi says
August 26, 2014 at 9:37 amis this way of transfer channel could remove youtube partner?
because I want to cancel my youtube partnership and never success
Thanks
Molly says
September 19, 2014 at 5:01 pmI do not think this works anymore – at least my Google+ page doesn’t have the above, is different, and I cannot find where to invite a manager, the above instructions I cannot follow — I am trying to transfer my YouTube channel to a different owner, someone who bought my website.
Was hoping this would work but maybe not anymore. If you can advise, would hugely appreciate it.
Michael says
October 7, 2014 at 6:11 pmThanks for this information 🙂
I’ve wanted to transfer my youtube account off an old account I never used except for YT onto the google account I use for everything else for a while. I have to wait two weeks to make my main account the owner but I’ll finally be able to stop using that old account.
Anurag kumar says
October 12, 2014 at 8:04 amThank you bro.
Anandamayi says
November 20, 2014 at 1:34 amHi.
When I go to ‘settings’, I do not have the ‘managers’ tab. All that comes up is ‘settings’ and ‘audience’. I have been through both of these, and neither mention managers.
Can you please help me with this?’
I appreciate your time.
Thank you,
Anandamayi
lokesh pandey says
December 21, 2014 at 1:47 pmI’m not seeing the “Connect with a Google+ Page” as an option in my advanced settings.
The button to “Connect channel with google+” does not show in my “advanced settings”.
It just shows :
Advanced
Account information
Youtube user id
Youtube channel id
Authorized sites to your google account
Sign out of all Youtube sessions.
How we change google + page.
Kami says
December 28, 2014 at 4:42 pmIf I do that transfer will all my likes and subscription be saved
Anand Kumar says
December 31, 2014 at 1:58 pmYes, Of Course!
들리나요..? says
January 1, 2015 at 3:13 pmHi! thanks for the vidoe. l have a question.
1. One Google ID, if i have a YouTube channel ‘A’ and ‘B’
‘B’ channel transfer ownership of ‘A’ channel?
the transfer of ownership is only possible with the Google ID?
channel-to-channel transfer of ownership is not?
2. When a transfer of ownership, Want to know what changes.
my playlist, subscriptions information is maintained?
and only the subscribers, video transfer?
Please give a good answer.
Thanks.
hhotelconsult says
January 14, 2015 at 8:46 pmOkay…
I have my main gmail account, and I created a hotel’s page, merged it with maps, places, local, etc.
The hotel also has a youtube account for 8 years or so. When G+ was being born, they auto-generated a Google Plus account based on that hotel Youtube account.
Now I have a G+ profile connected to YT, but I need that YT to be connected to the “real” hotel page under my main account.
I am not finding a way to transfer this, anymore, or unhook the YT account from the autogenerated G+ hotel account.
Hope that is simple? Is there a way to transfer the original YT account to the main hotel plus/local/places/map page?
Anand Kumar says
January 15, 2015 at 4:49 pmHey Michael, In your case you will need to submit MANUAL REQUEST to Google Team. They will do it for you. To submit request visit: https://support.google.com/youtube/contact/ytgplus
According to official doc:
AND don’t forget to share your experience with me ([email protected]) or commenting below. HTH
hhotelconsult says
January 15, 2015 at 7:17 pmThank you. I submitted the manual one… and will update you on what happens. Thank you so much for your time and availability. Cheers.
T.Doom says
December 29, 2015 at 3:42 pmStep 4: Now go to Google plus page and change the privilege from “Manager” to “Owner”.
This step is not clear. It should be “Go to the Google plus page FROM THE OWNER’S ACCOUNT and change the privilege from Manager to Owner.”
If you go to the Google plus page as the new manager, the option to change the privilege will NOT be there.