500 Subscribers???

[AlmightySTAR]

So in order to change your YouTube Channel Name, you must have 500 subscribers?

 

[HariusAwesome]

Not exactly.

When you reach 500 subscribers, you can set a custom URL; that is to say, you can set a link like youtube.uk.ir.co.uk/thisismychannellovemeinternet that will redirect to your channel page. It's a somewhat recent feature, which is why I have a custom URL myself without the number of subscribers because I set one before they brought the feature in.

tl;dr: once you reach 500 subscribers you can set a custom channel URL. To my knowledge, you can change your "name" any time.

 

[RichGuitarGamer]

you can change your name once i believe, but custome url is something the youtube team will give you once you meet certain criteria, not necessarily the sub count - could be monthly views likes comments etc

 

[Topknot]

You can change your channel name, without having 500 subs, that's what I did. A custom url, well I'll need to get to 500 to see for myself.

 

[HariusAwesome]

you can change your name once i believe, but custome url is something the youtube team will give you once you meet certain criteria, not necessarily the sub count - could be monthly views likes comments etc

I think you can change your YouTube channel name more than once because it's linked to Google+. I was wrong earlier; when I checked a few months ago it was five hundred but they appear to have lowered it to 100 to get a custom URL. You do also need to be at least thirty days old and have channel art and all that, and you also can't get one unless you're in good standing.

 

[Topknot]

I think you can change your YouTube channel name more than once because it's linked to Google+. I was wrong earlier; when I checked a few months ago it was five hundred but they appear to have lowered it to 100 to get a custom URL. You do also need to be at least thirty days old and have channel art and all that, and you also can't get one unless you're in good standing.

Awesome! Informative post

 

[HariusAwesome]

Awesome! Informative post

Happy to oblige I see where the figure of 500 came from, but it no longer applies to anything as far as I know. I'll do some looking around on the internet, though.

 

[Juzey]

I think you can change your YouTube channel name more than once because it's linked to Google+. I was wrong earlier; when I checked a few months ago it was five hundred but they appear to have lowered it to 100 to get a custom URL. You do also need to be at least thirty days old and have channel art and all that, and you also can't get one unless you're in good standing.

Yep, as you say, the requirement for a custom URL is now 100 subscribers.

 

[HariusAwesome]

Yep, as you say, the requirement for a custom URL is now 100 subscribers.

Indeed - I think it's a step in the right direction, setting it at 500 subscribers is kind of pricing certain YouTubers out of the market. Of course, you also can't just let anyone do it because then all the URLs would get taken, so I think this strikes a reasonable balance.

 

[Galvin Lee]

Nope, definitely not necessary if you're talking about the channel name.