How to customize your YouTube Channel URL
In this video, I'm going to show you how to customize your YouTube channel URL, which for me right now is a long string of letters and numbers. But, I want it to be something that I can actually say out loud and share with people - something that's easy to say and remember.
In order to do this, you do have to have a couple things done first:
You have to have at least a hundred or more subscribers on your YouTube channel.
Your channel has to be at least 30 days old.
You have to have uploaded a profile picture.
You have to uploaded a banner image.
If you've done those four things, then you are eligible to customize your YouTube URL!
To start, navigate to your main channel page (logged in, of course) and find the "customized channel" blue button under your channel art. When you click on that, it will pop open the YouTube Studio. Then what I want you to do is click into "basic info" and you'll see the channel URL section and click to open custom URL.
For mine - I'm honestly a little upset that it won't let me just have /designingtherow as my URL... so I'm going to make it /designingtherowvideos. Once you set your URL, click "publish," and open up a new tab and go to youtube.com/c (c stands for channel) /whatever-your-new-URL-is! Then it will pull up your channel page! Isn't that so much more "on brand," professional, and easier to communicate?
I hope this was helpful! If so, make sure to like this video and subscribe to my channel for more online marketing videos!
Bonus tip!
This is one of my go-to tricks when it comes to YouTube channel URLs.
If you add ?sub_confirmation=1 to the end of your new custom URL (this also works on non-custom channel URLs too), when someone clicks on the link it will automatically prompt them to subscribe to your channel.
Try it out:
www.youtube.com/c/designingtherowvideos?sub_confirmation=1
Pretty fancy, huh?
I recommend adding this link to several places:
The video description of all your YouTube videos
The YouTube social icon link on your website
Anywhere else you might link to the “homepage” of your YouTube channel!
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