 Hello. How do I change the... I don't know why I'm shouting. How do I change the name of my YouTube channel? That is an excellent question and one that I hope to answer with you by actually changing the channel name of my channel right here in front of you before your very eyes in real time. My name is Neil Mossy. I'm a digital development producer helping high achieving creators and performers just like you. There's a sound effect. A high five would be better than a dig, wouldn't it? To get ideas out of your head and out onto here on YouTube. We need your channel but first we need your channel name to be changed just like mine. So let's take a look at my YouTube studio. The first thing we can do is click on the three lines here to expand our menu. Now you should be familiar with this if you run a channel but the section that you want is the tab down here it's called customization. So click on that and of course make sure that you are logged into the channel that you want to change. You can do that up on the top right hand side here just by clicking switch accounts and then choosing the one that you want to change. So we're in this channel here it's called Neonipops, Trains and Stops. It seemed like an excellent name for a channel when I set this up but we can see three tabs here under channel customization there's the layout there's a whole other video on this in the description. This is where you can change how your channel looks when someone goes to the homepage of your channel. The second tab is branding and this is where we can change our profile picture and select a banner image. I've not done mine yet and that will be the subject of another video. Again that's down in the description. The tab we want is basic information basic info and I almost didn't find it but the place where we are going to change our channel name is here it's above the channel description. Let's type something in now my channel where I go for AUX excellent pros this is why I'm a development producer but where do we change our channel name I think it's quite hidden even though it's really obvious and right at the top if you can see here there's a pen little pen icon we can click on that pen or pencil if I hover over it says edit channel name click on that and there you go here's the box where we put our channel name I'm just going to call it something slightly different I'm going to call it Trains and Stops with Neonipops and then we go up to the top right hand corner and hit publish and as you can see it's confirmation at the bottom change is published should we view the channel let's have a quick look at the channel I only have one video on here I have quite a few videos to put up on this channel but as you can see the channel name has changed so if you haven't got this box I think you'll have a box that looks like this where you have two boxes there's a first name and a last name and that's because this YouTube channel is basically linked to the Google account that created it and the first name as you can see is great story team and I didn't put a last name in I didn't set it up properly I set it up like it's a person so it's a little bit more tricky to change this channel name all we can do is just change the first name and last name it's like a personal account and it's totally okay to change it here so I could put with Neil Nossi all that would happen here is if I save this it would just change the name of the Google account that this is linked to so it's not quite the same as changing the channel name properly what we can do to help explain it better is if you click on the learn more there's a whole article here about managing your channel's basic information if I click on change your channel name in description you can see down here there's a basic explanation which is to use a different name on YouTube than your Google account you can create a brand account and connect it to your channel so let's see if we can do that I'm going to do it in real time and we'll see what happens so I'm going to click on create a brand account and there's an explanation here about how brand accounts work and I know all you wanted to do is just to change your YouTube channel name but let's go through this this is a good idea if you want to use a different name on YouTube and it also helps to manage multiple channels from the one Google account so there's a checklist here first check to see if you already have a brand account it takes you to this help article but that directs you to this URL youtube.com account underscore advanced and if you click move channel to a brand account I'll click on this YouTube gives me a little map so it shows that my channel is actually connected to the same Google accounts of the same name and what we want to do is to move this channel to a brand channel but there's no brand channel for me to move it to so the next task on the list is to go to your channel list there's my one channel it's called great story team there are no other channels so we're going to create a new channel and I'm going to call this brand account name great story team then hit create this channel does not exist we know that because we have just created it let's go back to the the help article fill out the details to name the brand account and verify your accounts then click create well it doesn't let me do that let's go up to the top right hand corner and I've gone into studio so this is the brand new channel this is my brand channel okay so things went a bit weird when I hit create a new channel because it says the next step is to fill out the details to name the brand accounts and verify your account well as you saw it just went straight to a page that said channel does not exist so I'm going to sign out and I'm going to sign back in as the channel that I wanted to move click your profile picture and then we're going to click down here on settings so in the left menu we're going to click on advanced settings now we'll go down to here move channel we're going to click to move channel to a brand account there we go when you create your brand account you are logged into that brand account you need to come out and go back to the channel that you want to move to the brand account that you've just created my channel now which is the great story team channel and then after the move so we're going to choose an account so I'm going to select great story team which is the brand account that we just created now it's giving me a warning great story team is already connected to another youtube channel absolutely do you remember it was the channel that youtube said doesn't exist so what it's saying is if I move my channel to this brand account the connected channel there will be deleted this must be absolutely terrifying for you if you're about to do this I know I'm going to be okay because it's confirming here this channel has zero subscribers no videos and no playlists it's just a empty shell of a channel that's just been created so I'm going to hit delete channel and it shows you what's going to happen so my channel now is connected to my great story team personal account and after the move it's going to be connected to the brand account great story team now the only reason I know it's different is because I have those spaces in the name for that brand account so I'm going to hit the move channel and it's asking you are you sure you want to do this your channel name and icon will be updated across youtube my channel url because I have a personalized url will not change that's good but some content cannot be transferred basically your comments cannot be moved I don't know what that means so I'm going to set up a little test I'm going to leave a comment on one of my other videos on my other channel and we're going to see what happens to my comments because you might have a lot of comments out there that you do not want to lose so I'm going to go into my own video on the Neil Mossy channel this channel and I'm going to leave a comment do I still exist wish me luck we'll see what happens to that comment after I've made the move uh look what's happened so the comment still exists but look the avatar has completely disappeared let's click on the avatar yeah look it's disappeared so I'm going to hit move channel big moments my channel has been successfully moved so my great story team channel that used to be the personal channel of the google account great story team has now been moved to a brand account that's called great space story space team it might take up to 10 minutes for updates on my account to be completed that's okay now I would just step away from the computer for 10 minutes and let youtube to do its thing because it is pretty terrifying when you get messages like this don't create a new channel what if you do we'll just let it let it go through I was worried my great story team channel has one of my highest rated videos it's this one here how to set the clock on a lamona oven as you can see I've had 223,000 views but excitingly look that's the channel now instead of great story team one word it comes under great story team three words I think the move has gone through successfully I'm just worried if I click this I'm worried it's gonna just completely wipe out my channel I think I've worked this out because we have moved my channel great story team one word to the brand account great story team three words it's basically freed up a channel here which we don't need so that this could be a brand new channel so we don't need to create channel what we need to do is to sign in on our brand account so I'm going to sign out I'm going to sign back in and it asks do I want to use youtube as my personal account great story team or my brand account great space story space team let's go for the brand account and now if I go to youtube studio oh there they are oh my goodness that was terrifying close so do you see what's happened because we moved that channel to this brand account it freed up some space for a brand new youtube channel on the place that we've moved from so to go into your channel that you've moved you've got to sign out and you've got to sign back in again and choose the brand account and I'm going to click on customization and then we'll go to basic info and then we'll click on the pencil there you go that was so difficult so here we can see this is where you can change your channel name now and it's not as first name last name like we had before what we have now is a big long box where you can write a title I don't know how long this title can be there we go right so the name has to be 50 characters or less and that is how you change your youtube channel name if you hit the subscribe button you'll be up to date with my new experiments online let me wreck my little experimental channels before you damage your youtube channel if you want to see more about how to set up a brand account there's this video here I do a complete walkthrough on the difference between a personal account on youtube and a brand account and up here is what youtube thinks you should be watching next thanks for joining me and good luck with renaming your youtube channel