How Do I Get My Youtube Channel Link

In this episode I'll show you 4 means of finding your YouTube Channel's URL. I'll too explain why in that location are iii types of YouTube Channel URLs, and what the query parameters are that you can suspend.

Simply in example watching videos isn't your matter, or you're in a bustle, I thought I'd include some written instructions besides 🙂

Method 1: YouTube Homepage, correct after login

Right after you login to YouTube, you'll find a menu on the top right corner. There should be a link to Your Channel – if you're lucky.

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

Method 2: Height of the Creator's Studio

If you head into the Creator'south Studio, select the Dashboard tab on the left. You'll see a link to your channel at the very acme of the screen. Expect for the words VIEW Aqueduct.

Method 3: Custom URL

If you caput over to your Channel tab on the left, you lot'll see several boxes populating your Creator's Studio. Those are all related to a particular feature each. One of the, at the lesser of the screen, is chosen Custom URL.

This is a "creator's perk" and just bachelor if your aqueduct has artwork uploaded and at least 100 subscribers. You'll either see an "enable" choice with which y'all can set a custom URL, or an "ineligible" message – in which case this feature is not available to your channel yet.

If you take this option, and have enabled a custom URL, yous'll see a link right there in this box.

Method 4: Subconscious Bill of fare on the Top Left

There'due south a somewhat "subconscious carte" at the elevation left of the YouTube Creator'southward Studio. Look for the 3 niggling lines next to the YouTube icon. Click it and you'll see a menu overlaying the left office of your screen. The second selection, underneath the word Home contains a link to your channel.

YouTube URL Parameters

When yous finally become agree of your (really non easily accessible) YouTube Channel URL, you may notice it looks something like this:

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

See that parameter at the end, subsequently the question mark, "?view_as=subscriber"? That'south NOT function of your URL. You tin can – and should – trim that off, including the question mark.

This is what we call a "query parameter". It lets you lot preview your own channel as a company who has either already subscribed, or someone who has not yet subscribed (in which case, you'll see a cerise SUBSCRIBE button). Try it out by replacing the part after the question marking with "view_as=public". Not only volition the red SUBSCRIBE button appear, but the site will also display your channel trailer.

To stick with the above example, the YouTube URL should look like this (without the query parameter):

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

Brand sure to include all characters when you share this URL, otherwise your channel won't evidence up properly.

Wait! My URL looks totally different… what gives?

When y'all explore all these options, yous might discover that the URL to your channel can look very different. In fact, there are three unlike types of YouTube Channel URLs:

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

All these are valid and lead to the same aqueduct, just there are historic reasons for how those versions came about. Hither's a brief history lesson.

Legacy YouTube Aqueduct URLs came nigh when YouTube was founded in 2005. Dorsum in those days, users could merely have a single channel, which was tied to the user's profile, and hence their user name. If you lot wanted a second channel, you had to create a second user ID.

This inverse a few years afterwards Google had bought YouTube in 2006 when they integrated YouTube with other Google services. For a while you could utilise both your Google ID or your legacy YouTube ID to login, but at some signal only the Google ID was allowed for logins. With information technology came the ability for us to create several different channels under a single ID.

Those older channels can still be accessed using the in a higher place formula and the original channel URL.

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

Because of several user complaints, they've besides 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 y'all know why in that location are then many different types of channel URLs.

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Source: https://wpguru.co.uk/2018/03/how-to-find-your-youtube-channel-url/

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