Hi guys, so i own a gaming channel on youtube, and i recently wanted to expand a little and create a secondary channel affiliated with the channel mentioned above. When i clicked on ‘create account’ in youtube, it takes me to the google accounts page. (incredibly annoying how you need a google account). And tells me i need to create an account and go through everything necessary to ‘make’ the account. After doing so it redirects me to youtube and says it has connected me with my google account.. This is all fine and well, except for the small problem my channel name is my real life name.. And there’s no clear way to change it.. Does anybody know of a way to change my username? for example i would like it to be ‘(channelname)news’ yet the only way i can see of possibly having that is through google accounts ‘nickname’ which is incredibly stupid as it would then be ‘first name (nickname) last name’ which is not helpful at all.
Anybodies help would be incredibly good as quite frankly its pissing me off. I much preferred it when you didn’t have to go through google.
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How Do You Change Your Username In A Google Account?
Posted on March 19, 2012.
Unfortunately I don’t think there’s a way to bypass / change this because Google want everyone to link their YouTube account with their Google account and Google + etc. You may want to post on a Google forum to double check this though.
from account setting option
Yes, I’m on the same boat bro. I can’t change my name either. It sucks!!
You can. Go up to the top of the page, click on your picture to drop down the menu. Then you just need to click “YouTube Settings”. On the left, click manage account and then under “Channel settings” it should have a blue hyperlink that says “create username”. Too damn difficult to find if you ask me, but it’s there.