This is another one of those things that my clients sometimes asked when we were working as digital marketing consultants. I had written about this some time back. Here is version 2 of the article. Google certainly does not make moving accounts easy to manage! I was surprised at how hard this is! You, in fact, cannot merge two Channels (see: Youtube Channels cannot be merged). You can only do what I have recommended here if you create a new Brand channel!
Here are the steps:
- Login to Youtube with your old youtube account; we will call it OldAccount in this example. Move to Creator Studio -> Settings as shown in the gif below. Note that the account here is set to access the older version of Youtube studio. Moving to Settings work similarly for the newer version as well.
2. Create a Brand Account, as shown below.
3. Move your Channel to the new Brand account you created, as shown below. Note that there will be a default Channel connected to the Brand account, which will be deleted. Also, there are a few attributes that might not move. Youtube would tell you which. I think comments do not move. Please verify.
4. Make your new Youtube account (say NewAccount) the owner as shown below. Please do not forget to make NewAccount an owner of the Brand Account.
5. Now login as NewAccount, go to Gmail and accept the invitation. You should land upon the page shown below, where you will see that you are the owner of the new Brand account. You should change yourself to be the Primary Owner of the account. It generally takes a day to take effect, as shown below.
You can go one step further from here on and move the Brand account to your NewAccount. We did not see the need to do so.
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