Where Do I Find The Link To My Youtube Channel

In this episode I'll show you four means of finding your YouTube Aqueduct'southward URL. I'll also explicate why there are 3 types of YouTube Aqueduct URLs, and what the query parameters are that you can append.

Merely in example watching videos isn't your thing, or you're in a hurry, I thought I'd include some written instructions likewise 🙂

Method 1: YouTube Homepage, right afterwards login

Right after you lot login to YouTube, you'll notice a card on the height correct corner. At that place should exist a link to Your Channel – if you lot're lucky.

I'm saying "if yous're lucky" because equally soon as you head over to your Creator Studio, you'll discover that this link will be gone from the top right menu. Lucky for us, there are several other means of getting at that channel.

Method 2: Top of the Creator's Studio

If you head into the Creator's Studio, select the Dashboard tab on the left. You'll see a link to your channel at the very peak of the screen. Look for the words VIEW CHANNEL.

Method 3: Custom URL

If you lot caput over to your Channel tab on the left, yous'll run into several boxes populating your Creator's Studio. Those are all related to a particular feature each. 1 of the, at the bottom of the screen, is called Custom URL.

This is a "creator's perk" and only available if your channel has artwork uploaded and at least 100 subscribers. Yous'll either see an "enable" selection with which you tin set a custom URL, or an "ineligible" message – in which instance this feature is not available to your channel yet.

If you lot have this option, and have enabled a custom URL, you lot'll meet a link right there in this box.

Method iv: Hidden Menu on the Top Left

There's a somewhat "subconscious carte" at the top left of the YouTube Creator'due south Studio. Wait for the iii little lines next to the YouTube icon. Click it and you'll see a menu overlaying the left part of your screen. The 2d option, underneath the word Dwelling contains a link to your channel.

YouTube URL Parameters

When you finally get hold of your (really not easily accessible) YouTube Channel URL, you may observe it looks something like this:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMhv8E4GMw6erC-9iiYtNFg?view_as=subscriber

See that parameter at the stop, after the question mark, "?view_as=subscriber"? That'due south Not role of your URL. You can – and should – trim that off, including the question mark.

This is what we call a "query parameter". It lets yous preview your own channel as a visitor who has either already subscribed, or someone who has non yet subscribed (in which example, you'll see a red SUBSCRIBE button). Endeavor information technology out by replacing the part later the question mark with "view_as=public". Non only volition the red SUBSCRIBE button appear, but the site will also display your channel trailer.

To stick with the to a higher place example, the YouTube URL should look similar this (without the query parameter):

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMhv8E4GMw6erC-9iiYtNFg

Brand sure to include all characters when y'all share this URL, otherwise your aqueduct won't show up properly.

Wait! My URL looks totally different… what gives?

When you explore all these options, you might observe that the URL to your aqueduct can await very different. In fact, there are iii unlike types of YouTube Channel URLs:

Legacy URLs (similar https://youtube.com/user/wphosting)
Standard URLs (like https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMhv8E4GMw6erC-9iiYtNFg)
Custom URLs (like https://www.youtube.com/c/WPGuruTV)

All these are valid and atomic number 82 to the aforementioned aqueduct, just at that place are historic reasons for how those versions came about. Here's a cursory history lesson.

Legacy YouTube Channel URLs came nearly when YouTube was founded in 2005. Back in those days, users could but have a single channel, which was tied to the user's contour, and hence their user name. If you lot wanted a second channel, you had to create a second user ID.

This changed a few years subsequently Google had bought YouTube in 2006 when they integrated YouTube with other Google services. For a while y'all could use both your Google ID or your legacy YouTube ID to login, just at some point simply the Google ID was allowed for logins. With it came the ability for us to create several unlike channels nether a single ID.

Those older channels tin can still be accessed using the above formula and the original aqueduct URL.

Standard YouTube Aqueduct URLs were introduced when Google made it possible for u.s.a. to create channels separately from our Google IDs. Much like single video ID'due south, each channel is now assigned a massive string of letters and numbers. The good news is that YouTube won't run out of aqueduct ID's anytime presently, however a random string of 24 characters is a niggling hard to remember, and a tad ugly when information technology's printed onto business cards. It's even worse that the 11 random characters our videos get when we upload ane.

Because of several user complaints, they've likewise introduced the Custom YouTube Channel URL. This is something of a (relatively ugly) vanity URL, which we can modify to something of our own liking.

Now yous know why in that location are so many dissimilar types of channel URLs.

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