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If you’re not satisfied with the URL to your YouTube channel because its some username that doesn’t sit well with what your channel has come to be known as on the video streaming website, there’s finally a way for YouTube creators to claim custom URLs, but there’s a caveat. The YouTube team have today introduced a new method of picking out a custom URL which matches users’ channel names and branding.

For example when you created the YouTube account your username was “kittensareawesome,” which would subsequently make your channel URL youtube.com/kittensareawesome, and now you feature other pets on your channel as well you could either make a new channel have go through a painstaking process of urging your subscribers to come to the new channel or use the new method provided by YouTube.

The new method will only be offered to YouTube creators with 500 or more subscribers, that’s caveat number one. When a custom URL is ready to claim those users will receive an email and will be provided with several options.

Users themselves won’t be able to punch in a custom URL of their liking, and that’s caveat number two. YouTube will decide the new options itself based on your “channel’s description, Google identity and associated websites.”

Once creators are ready to pick out their new URL they have to follow these instructions after which subscribers and fans will be automatically directed to the channel whenever they try accessing it through the new custom URL.

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