Change your YouTube vanity URL by buying a similar domain, redirecting it through free hosting like Tumblr, and linking it to your channel via Google+. YouTube will then offer your desired URL as a suggestion. Your channel needs 500+ subscribers and must be 30+ days old.
Hey guys, this is going to be a quick unedited video. I just found something really exciting. So basically, if you have a YouTube channel and it has some vanity URL that you chose a long time ago, I have found a way to change it. Now understand, you have to have over 500 subscribers, which most people probably don't. Have over 500 subscribers. So that's the biggest obstacle in this whole process. But assuming you do have over 500 subscribers and you are trying to get your own vanity URL, here is how to do it. Step 1: Buy a domain name, if you can, that's one letter off from the vanity URL you want for your YouTube channel. For example, if you want "I like cheese a lot" on YouTube channel, and assuming that domain isn't purchased yet, you would buy "I like cheese a low" or "I like cheese a lot" without the T. So once you purchase that domain name, open, uh, have your Tumblr account or run a Tumblr account and make that blog run with Tumblr so that you have ilikecheeselow.tumblr.com, then make it ilikecheeselow.com redirects to your Tumblr. Basically, you need to be in control of your Tumblr. It doesn't have to be Tumblr, but that's the first one that came to my head about a free web hosting service that would use a domain that you've already purchased. And you have to purchase it for around $12, $15 or so, but it's worth it if you want your own vanity URL. So at this point, you have 500 subscribers, your channel's been out for more than 30 days, you are eligible for a vanity URL. So you follow the link that maybe YouTube emailed you, maybe you have to go into the advanced settings yourself. And the suggestions they'll give you, um, if, uh, are pretty lackluster. So what you should do is link your YouTube channel or your Google+ page that it assigns to it to your new website that you just purchased. So say you use GoDaddy to purchase the domain name, ilikejeezalow.com. Then you change the DNS settings to point to the IP address of Tumblr, and then you go into the Tumblr settings and you link the Google+ page with your Tumblr, AKA your domain, by putting in the code they suggest. Once you've verified it— and it will take a while for it to update— but what you should have is like a Google+ link basically on your home page on your Tumblr that has the domain name that you just bought. Then you go to your page and pair it with that. Once it's done and you refresh your VAM URL suggestions, it will suggest, "I like cheese a lot." "I like cheese a lo." Suffix required. For some reason, on most pages, they need a suffix. So in other words, it would be like adding a 1 at the end or adding a number at the end. Sorry, my voice is kind of not so good today. But what you can do in this case is because you did "I like cheese a lo" is you can add a T on the end, so "I like cheese a lot" suddenly becomes available. Because what YouTube tries to do is make yours more unique by adding a 1 or a Z or, you know, something at the end. But this is how you can trick it into giving it the full vanity URL that you want. So you click "Done." Oh yeah, here's one more thing. You get youtube.com/c/this new vanity URL name. Now, You're going to retain your original youtube.com/name, but your youtube.com/c/name is what will be newly done. And your Google+ page should have the same vanity URL that you switched to the new one as well. So at the end of the day, you'll have youtube.com/IlikeCheeseALot, or /c/IlikeCheeseALot, and google.com/+ILikeCheeseALot. And that will be your new rebranded, edited vanity URL. So that's how to do it. I just felt it was so important that I needed to share it in a video. Thank you.
